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On Thursday 28 July 2005 20:59, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > On Thursday 28 July 2005 08:51, Zarick Lau wrote: |
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> >>Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >>>I switched from devfs to udev 10 days ago, and since then every |
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> >>>nth boot will hang at 'initializing random number generator' |
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> >> |
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> >>It try to read a /dev/urandom, does this device node created properly by |
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> >>udev. In my box, there is corresponding rules in udev setting. |
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> >> |
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> >>Cheers, |
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> >>Zarick Lau |
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> > |
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> > grep -R 'urandom' /etc/udev/ |
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> > /etc/udev/udev.permissions:urandom:root:root:0444 |
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> > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="urandom", NAME="%k", |
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> > MODE="0444" |
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> > |
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> > I would say 'yes it is there' ;) |
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> > |
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> > Hm, one more: it does not matter, if it is a coldboot, or a reboot. |
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> > Sometimes it hangs. sometimes it hangs not. |
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> |
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> It must be a problem with the urandom driver in your kernel because the |
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> urandom(4) manpage says that "A read from the /dev/urandom device will not |
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> block waiting for more entropy". |
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> |
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> Zac |
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uname -a |
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Linux energy 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #2 Thu Jul 14 07:37:15 CEST 2005 i686 AMD |
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Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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it bootet fine with devfs, oh, and the config is the same since ages, three |
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days later, I switched to udev. |
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Btw, I greped the config for random/urandom, there was nothing found. Hm, |
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where should I look? |
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