From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 23:42:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 385FA32E; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 23:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70E97C9; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 23:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nine.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by smtp-int.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F07DA5AB; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 23:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nine.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 095E510AC4; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 00:42:18 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Ian Lepore Subject: Re: svn commit: r273872 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d libexec/save-entropy share/examples/kld/random_adaptor sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/modules sys/modules/padlock_rng sys/mo... References: <201410302121.s9ULLsEw055630@svn.freebsd.org> <20141101181536.2b6a5911@kan> <627C5F71-939A-4579-8A1B-45933662DAED@FreeBSD.org> <1414882185.17308.221.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <86r3xm5wt6.fsf@nine.des.no> <1414884894.17308.229.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:42:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1414884894.17308.229.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> (Ian Lepore's message of "Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:34:54 -0600") Message-ID: <86ioiy5vza.fsf@nine.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Adrian Chadd , "src-committers@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" , Mark R V Murray , Alexander Kabaev X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 23:42:17 -0000 Ian Lepore writes: > and so it tries to write an entropy file at startup and hangs, > presumably because /dev/random hasn't been sufficiently fed to > generate that much random output? That's problem #2, /dev/random *should* be unblocked by then. BTW, there is no such thing as being "sufficiently fed to generate that much random output". Yarrow doesn't work that way. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no