Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:01:44 -0700 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Wesley Morgan <morganw@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <200010260001.e9Q01kp10188@grimreaper.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251939040.414-100000@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com> ; from Wesley Morgan <morganw@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com> "Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:50:28 EDT." References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251939040.414-100000@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com>
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> Ok, I rebooted once and the entropy caching did not work. Changed > entropy_file to point to /var/db/entropy, rebooted. Did not > work. Commented out the entropy_file setting and rebooted... And it > worked. Rebooted 5 times, worked every time. Laptop is working > now. cvsup'd my desktop, ran mergemaster and it worked for 3 reboots... I need logs. What is "did not work"? What is "it worked"? What was the line you commented out? What are the other things that your eye/brain are filtering out that I need to see in copious detail? M > Now, the problem I am seeing is that not only do I get the same fortunes > between reboots, but it is _always_ the same one: > > "Be ALERT (the world needs more lerts" > > has shown up first nearly every time for the past week. Waiting a few > minutes to log in has no effect... Still the same one. Now I'm no expert > on randomness and the like, but surely this can't be very random. > > I'll be eating my words tonight, but I swear it wasn't working for me > :) (and yes i had the latest rc files). > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > I am not seeing this, and I am unable to reproduce it. > > > > i terefore need better info than "it is so" to do anything about it. > > > > Please get a complete log of the boot process (put a set -x in /etc/rc > > while you are about it) and get that over to me. > > -- > _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ > Wesley N Morgan _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | > FreeBSD: The Power To Serve _ |___/___/___/ > 6bone: 3ffe:1ce3:7::b4ff:fe53:c297 > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! > > -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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