* Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> [2008-07-18 13:21:33]: > Since the last version #1153, my node takes a very long time to start (half an > hour or more). Trying to load the homepage gives a page saying that "Freenet > is starting up", and below: > > Not enough entropy is available! > There isn't enough entropy available on your system... Freenet won't start > until it can gather enough. > > This node runs in an unattended box, so any entropy sources will be non-human. > I have read somewhere that /dev/random is slow to refill and can be exhausted > easily if used too much. Could this be part of the problem? >
This is the problem. Launch a "find / >/dev/null" from a different shell and that should help the OS to refill the entropy pool. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080718/c3283205/attachment.pgp>
