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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Thursday 28 July 2005 08:51, Zarick Lau wrote: |
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>>Hi, |
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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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>>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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>>Cheers, |
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>>Zarick Lau |
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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", MODE="0444" |
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> I would say 'yes it is there' ;) |
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> Hm, one more: it does not matter, if it is a coldboot, or a reboot. Sometimes |
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> it hangs. sometimes it hangs not. |
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It must be a problem with the urandom driver in your kernel because the urandom(4) manpage says that "A read from the /dev/urandom device will not block waiting for more entropy". |
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Zac |
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