From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 06:40:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3AA2106566C for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:40:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282DD8FC1C for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p1H6egoe086506 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:10:42 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:10:42 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <282BBBA9-14FC-4B24-82C2-6EF4AFDE4953@gsoft.com.au> References: To: Ken Chen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: -2.51 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:40:46 -0000 On 17/02/2011, at 16:26, Ken Chen wrote: > I upgrade a very old machine from 6.3-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE by > 'freebsd-update'. After boot with 8.1 GENERIC kernel, it holds-on at > ''Entropy harvesting: '. I try to change configuration in > /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it helpless. >=20 >=20 > harvest_interrupt=3D"NO" # Entropy device harvests interrupt = randomness > harvest_ethernet=3D"NO" # Entropy device harvests ethernet randomness > harvest_p_to_p=3D"NO" # Entropy device harvests point-to-point = randomness >=20 >=20 > Then, I 'chmod 0 /etc/rc.d/initrandom'. The 8.1 skipped 'Entropy > harvesting', but hold-on again at 'pre-seeding PRNG'. >=20 > Any suggestion? Thanks and happy Lantern Festival. You should re-enable those, they help feed the entropy pool. You can seed it with a file by setting entropy_file in rc.conf to a file = full of (hopefully) random junk. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C