The source for random numbers is the rngd daemon. I think it needs to be started. Is rng-tools RPM installed?
Neale Ferguson SNA - 20 Years of Customer Success On 9/27/19, 04:48, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Johan Schelling" <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU on behalf of johan.schell...@icu-it.nl> wrote: I did some additional testing yesterday using gdb and strace…. gbd didn’t return any useful information, but that might also be due to my lack of gdb experience. Running strace resulted in the following: ... clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {207116, 975055264}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {207116, 975185579}) = 0 mmap(0xc420200000, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xc420200000 mmap(0xc41ffe8000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xc41ffe8000 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {207116, 975325872}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {207116, 975713954}) = 0 mmap(0xc420300000, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xc420300000 mmap(0xc41ffe0000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xc41ffe0000 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {207116, 977430825}) = 0 getrandom( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390