tag 787989 - moreinfo retitle 787989 add native hook to create /dev/random for jessie support thanks
On Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:44:10 +0200 Johannes Schauer <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Quoting Neil Williams (2015-06-07 18:31:07) > > It might be worth investigating whether the jessie / stretch > > chroots can be configured manually and what steps are required to > > do so. > > > > In the absence of information on what multistrap could actually have > > done and why packages in sid "just work", there isn't much that can > > be done with this report. > > adding a hook which adds /dev/random and /dev/urandom before package > configuration fixes this problem. > > Is this the info you were asking for? Yes, absolutely. Thanks. > In a maybe related note: after filing this bug I also saw the > configuration of openssh-server fail because of a > missing /dev/random. But I'm sure this used to work earlier (about > half a year ago) as I was > calling /usr/share/multistrap/device-table.pl in my setupscript and > at least in the past that used to be enough (and I don't think that > openssh-server did not require /dev/random to generate its private > keys in the past). Was the point at which setupscripts are executed > maybe changed in one of the recent multistrap releases? The actual multistrap script has not changed substantially since the version in Jessie - some extra support scripts were removed and a patch was applied for apt's Etc::Dir directive support. > Anyway, both my problems are now fixed by creating the respective > device nodes in a native hook before configuration. Thanks, I'll look at a default hook for jessie (or an example hook to add /dev/random to any suite) at that point. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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