Thanks! I’ll give your suggestions a try. -bob
On May 15, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 06:27:41AM -0500, Robert Nestor wrote: >> Yes, and it appears to be different from what Chavdar has on his slightly >> earlier system. >> seed 0 ??? estimate, collect, v > > Bingo! > > You do not have a hardware random number generator, and your setup did not > provide initial entropy. > > There is an ongoing thread on some other list where this currently is > discussed with lots of technical details and irritation, but the short > story is: > > - Easiest fix for now is to provide a properly seeded /var/db/entropy-file > (shutdown to single user, manually copy file over, reboot). > You can create such a file on another machine (with working random > number generator) via "rndctl -S $file". > After that reboot, all should be fine and the next rust build will > not block. > > - If this is a virtual machine, add viornd(4) to your kernel (and hope the > hypervisor supports it) > > There are variants of the first solution, like generating random bytes > by some other means and write them to /dev/random. > > Martin