On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:02:03AM +0100, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Moffat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:13 AM > Subject: Re: hang in gettext tests > > > ... > > > -William > > Maybe it's just my box, dunno. I'm currently in my third fresh > > build of chapter 6, and the problem is spreading: m4 tests hung on > > test_rwlock (it's part of gnulib, so probably in other packages) but > > on a second attempt they wizzed through like they normally do. Got > > to gettext, the first two attempts hung here, but the third is > > continuing. Not a showstopper, but annoying. > > > I don't know why it would happen there but that's a low cost to check if > entropy pool is not totally or almost empty > cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > > Gilles > An interesting suggestion. For the moment, I'm not planning on another build. I'll try to remember to check this - normally, I've got plenty of entropy.
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