Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:19:20 +0400 From: Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us@infoline.su> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mozilla-1.7,2 and jdk-1.4.2p6_4 plugin problem Message-ID: <40F0F808.1000906@infoline.su>
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Yep. This is it. It works after I added /dev/psm0 as an entropy source. Tried this after exhausting entropy pool with cat /dev/urandom and with/without ps2 mouse irq added. Got consistent results. Thanks for your help Greg! Sasha >>More info on the problem. >>Looking at the thread stack dumps when the browser gets stuck >>I've found threads locked within sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator >>methods. >> >>The reason why I'm having trouble loading applets over http is that >>I have grant codeBase "https://something/-" in my ~/.java.policy file. >>As soon as I removed https:// clause from my ~/.java.policy everything >>works fine over http. >> >>I've attached thread stack dump at the end of the message. >>Hope this may help to reproduce and fix the problem. > > > Ok, I've got a good guess now. The stack trace suggests that the JVM > is stuck trying to read secure random bytes from /dev/random. This is > a fairly common problem (particularly on 4.x) if the random device > isn't hooked up to enough entropy sources to gather "randomness" from. > Try using rndcontrol(8) to provide yourself with some more entropy > sources and let me know if that resolves the problem. There are some > pointers on doing this in the freebsd-java mailing list archives. >
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