From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 19 19:09:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F86106566C for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:09:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1988FC12 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-164-220.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.164.220]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2741E5D7; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:09:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o0JJ9OnG003866; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:09:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:09:24 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Andy Hiscock Message-Id: <20100119200924.d685654b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <820969.13757.qm@web26108.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <820969.13757.qm@web26108.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE Hanging on boot-up/Harvesting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:09:28 -0000 On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:19 +0000 (GMT), Andy Hiscock wrote: > All went well except when it comes to boot-up. Works though the > config until it gets to some sort of networking routine/initiating. > The line said something about "Harvesting ppp/Ethernet"? This looks like the entropy line. And it sounds familiar to me. I remember that I saw this with an older version (maybe 5) of FreeBSD, but I can't remember what I did to resolve the problem... maybe it had something to do with defective hardware (NIC)..? > Has anyone come across this problem/is there a work around? > I've tried turning things like power management and Loading BIOS > default settings. Try to extract or disable the NIC - just a wild guess, nothing coming from an educated background! :-) >From a more educated background, maybe this is interesting for you: The rc.conf file may contain settings to control the entropy harvesting; from defaults/rc.conf: entropy_file="/entropy" # Set to NO to disable caching entropy through reboots. # /var/db/entropy-file is preferred if / is not avail. entropy_dir="/var/db/entropy" # Set to NO to disable caching entropy via cron. entropy_save_sz="2048" # Size of the entropy cache files. entropy_save_num="8" # Number of entropy cache files to save. harvest_interrupt="YES" # Entropy device harvests interrupt randomness harvest_ethernet="YES" # Entropy device harvests ethernet randomness harvest_p_to_p="YES" # Entropy device harvests point-to-point randomness The rc.d/initrandom, rc.d/random and rc.d/sshd scripts also participate in the entropy process. Maybe you can check if they require some resources that are not available at boot time... again, this is a quite uneducated guess. :-) > Machine Im using it on is an Celeron 800 - Old but tends to > be reliable ;) Don't mind - completely fine for a server. > Sorry I haven't got the error exact error. As I said, it seems that it's about the entropy harvesting. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...