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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:57:27 +0800
From:      sam wun <sam.wun@authtec.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Entropy is blocking
Message-ID:  <421E8607.6010008@authtec.com>
In-Reply-To: <421E84C7.7060602@cs.tu-berlin.de>
References:  <20050225004146.81245.qmail@web53108.mail.yahoo.com> <421E84C7.7060602@cs.tu-berlin.de>

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Björn König wrote:

> gahn wrote:
>
> > --- Björn König wrote:
> >
> >> Just a guess, do you have /dev/random?
> >>
> > no, Bjorn
> >
> > how can i fix this?
>
> You need 'device random' in your kernel configuration. I suppose you 
> built a kernel from a former kernel configuration? Create a new kernel 
> configuration based upon GENERIC in this case. There were some 
> important changes since 5.2.1.
>
This sometimes may not work, I got around this problem by pre-generate 
pair-keys in the /etc/ssh/ directory, the system boots fawlessly ever since.

Sam

> Björn



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