I am in chroot. I don't have those /dev/random or /dev/urandom. 

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From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: BLFS Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:32:26 PM
Subject: Re: OpenSSH installation problem.

On Jan 30, 2008 12:21 PM, amarsoft amarsoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting.
> ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data
> PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting.
> ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data
> PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting.
> ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data
> make: *** [host-key] Error 255

As a guess, I'd say the random key generator is failing because of a
missing /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Are you in a chroot? Do you have
those devices?

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