Entropy is blocking

sam wun sam.wun at authtec.com
Fri Feb 25 01:55:43 GMT 2005


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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