Oh, craptastic. X used to hash /dev/mem to get a random seed. It should have stopped that long ago, and used /dev/[u]random.
Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote: >On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:32:41AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: >> That's crazy. Didn't expect that at all. >> >> I guess X is happier getting an error than getting random pages back. > >Yeah, I think this is something special only this window manager wdm >does. The line below has appeared repeatedly in the logs earlier: > >Feb 5 23:02:02 a1 wdm: Cannot read randomFile "/dev/mem", errno = 14 > >This happens when wdm starts so I'm going to guess it uses it for >something funny, "randomFile" it calls it?? > >With the WARN_ON check added and booting 3.8-rc6, it would choke wdm >somehow and it wouldn't start properly so that even the error out above >doesn't happen. Oh well ... > >> I'm working on a set of patches now that should get it _working_ >> instead of just returning an error. > >Yeah, send them on and I'll run them. > >Thanks. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
