From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 9 12:10:37 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033F5C37A10 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22c.google.com (mail-wm0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 915AFE2E for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:10:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id a197so303074139wmd.0 for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 04:10:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=We/GTdAdVgcGQJ+Rgk3wh0H+B6aAXUmi1WcHCNWIjvE=; b=DEfIX4iMnYuoalbi4J9J6dnZSVIPkkRVxFADiHa7lejgiwEC12SCIHZ95sCyDTFMzU 2Q1G5AxVEvdMwM5EFOTFbcqM5vHgoGzSxgpUC1ATP3x0/p+1Vu9ir9wcONc7zjxT/EKW tLOCMdda9RfKq6PHwEVTwqwA5wP2JLoTDBGBabKuwFgEypksYPXojtOWOd6BagzSXpiu 8t3EwJcYH3Hs2ifHbLEK3eta4SDoq0pU4t2EtkVO9bnGQEw6BMv9LOkh0mBjIxysilV6 b09CVk/fnGvaWYzCcbpy610gKCeuBQ2Nz0us0cZXS7jLDHAkpqASHc/+cVFvHMn2/A84 nLZQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=We/GTdAdVgcGQJ+Rgk3wh0H+B6aAXUmi1WcHCNWIjvE=; b=J84hbC+ToIIzOBIOo2hjJM7Th5GVsXiJG40g9bFsyfPcA421pQRdF0sPdXhEb6+KkK ZaZLaIfL3U+6EJSXP7hm5Jn+gohIoWwoufGa0vRrq7RcmkSlYRduC4Eas0k1UX4lRc+c ojylNUSIdotKHzoPhV1P4Pg5MogTtqHoSQPSybF5FzpYkptV92+T6srhLK2wH/74VvjI or/Qepq17Q3725lM2ukm8leDSdZc2E7s5Gu0qpUA97F33FaTCuYzBNuYZPj/ttCq9tzT khMYHpqMbhACXAO5/mgHNrsvO3X2EmiluXrum1eY9IJ7IG1vCN7stX4N9EFPJCc6TN28 jp6A== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvdMDYLse6RJm4Gsj1F8thkFWNBAMZAgnCG1xjCWyzef4NA84hlUEio0FfbcEoPMVg== X-Received: by 10.194.23.67 with SMTP id k3mr14987912wjf.103.1478693434893; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 04:10:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([81.17.24.158]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u64sm6638300wmd.6.2016.11.09.04.10.33 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 09 Nov 2016 04:10:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:10:30 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old laptop not able to get enough entropy in FreeBSD 11 Message-ID: <20161109121030.2f678bea@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:10:37 -0000 On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 20:24:21 -0800 Jack L. wrote: > I have an old single core AMD Turion ML-37 laptop that has nothing > installed. When I boot it up, the moment it displays login:, it hangs > until i press some random keys. At shutdown, it will hang until I > press keys and it will not move onto the next line of shutdown until > I keep pressing keys. > > If I cat /dev/random > ./dev/null while using the laptop, it works > fine but when nothing is happening, the laptop hangs. Any ideas? It's > running 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD's /dev/random isn't supposed to block once it's seeded, so it's very unlikely this has anything to do with entropy.