svn commit: r273872 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d libexec/save-entropy share/examples/kld/random_adaptor sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/modules sys/modules/padlock_rng sys/mo...

[Ian Lepore]

On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 00:33 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > From the code.  This is a portion of the rc script that only runs at
> > shutdown.  If random_stop() runs during boot, something is seriously
> > wrong *somewhere else* and you are welcome to help find out what.
> 
> I found it - postrandom triggers it.  For now, just remove
> /etc/rc.d/postrandom (I'm not sure it's really needed, there are better
> ways to do this).
> 
> DES

It appears another quick easy workaround is to set entropy_file=NO in
rc.conf, which may be the right thing to do for people using a varmfs
that isn't going to survive a reboot anyway, even after this glitch is
fixed.

-- Ian