On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Mark Saad <nones...@longcount.org> wrote: > >> All >> At NYC*BUG we are looking into a warning seen on FreeBSD 10-STABLE amd64 >> starting at or about r292122 and still up till r292855. >> >> On boot dmesg logs the following warning not seen on 10.2-RELEASE amd64. >> >> random device not loaded; using insecure entropy >> >> The full dmesg can be seen here >> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2871 >> >> I checked in svn and there are no recent changes to sys/dev/random . >> >> Does anyone have any insight into this ? >> > > It's more of an informational message about seeding the random number > generator. Probably man 4 random is the best explanation. > > > > -- > Adam > Adam Not sure why I didn't think of that, thanks for the pointer; I didn't see any change in the relevant default sysctls . On a 10-RELEASE box no warning [msaad@ny4-c108-nocbox ~]$ uname -a FreeBSD ny4-c108-nocbox 10.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p7 #0: Mon Nov 2 14:19:39 UTC 2015 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [msaad@ny4-c108-nocbox ~]$ sysctl kern.random kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1 kern.random.sys.seeded: 1 kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh: 2 kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh: 128 kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh: 96 kern.random.yarrow.bins: 10 kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval: 10 kern.random.live_entropy_sources: kern.random.active_adaptor: yarrow kern.random.adaptors: yarrow,dummy ----- On 10-STABLE with warning msaad@smokeping:~ % uname -a FreeBSD smokeping 10.2-STABLE FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE #0 r292855: Tue Dec 29 06:17:50 UTC 2015 r...@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 msaad@smokeping:~ % sysctl kern.random kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1 kern.random.sys.seeded: 1 kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh: 2 kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh: 128 kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh: 96 kern.random.yarrow.bins: 10 kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval: 10 kern.random.live_entropy_sources: kern.random.active_adaptor: yarrow kern.random.adaptors: yarrow,dummy -- mark saad | nones...@longcount.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
