lsof: can't determine device random seed

[Jeffrey Lehman]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:25:44PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 08), Jeffrey Lehman said:
> > I'm running 7.0-RC1 amd64 and having an issue with lsof.
> > 
> > # lsof
> > lsof: can't determine user device random seed.
> > 
> > Anyone seen this problem and have a fix?
> 
> Do you also have a zfs root?  That's what triggers it for me.  There's
> no mention of a "device random seed" anywhere in the kernel source, so
> I just patched lsof to always return OK and a seed of zero from
> dev2udev, and everything seems to work okay.  Try putting the attached
> patch in the files subdirectory of the lsof port and rebuild.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com

> 
> --- dialects/freebsd/dmnt.c	2007-11-17 23:02:29.748574401 -0600
> +++ dialects/freebsd/dmnt.c	2007-11-17 23:02:29.750579975 -0600
> @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ dev2udev_no_space:
>  	    }
>  	    break;
>  	}
> +
> +	ss = 1;
>  /*
>   * Free string copies, as required.
>   */

Yep, I'm running a zfs root.  The patch worked perfectly. Thanks much!

-- 
Jeffrey Lehman
http://digitalguy.net
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