Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale writes: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? Looking at the init script it seems like if the character device /dev/urandom does not exist, it exits directly. Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could fail? Some kernel option? grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could fail? Some kernel option? grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y No, I think they are for special hardware randoem generators only. I don't heve those enabled in my .config. Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:24 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? -- Neil Bothwick Never eat more than you can lift. Hi Thanks for the clue, Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. How do i go ahead in fixing this issue Thanks and Regards Kaushal I'm not sure if this is a permanent solution because /dev is a tmpfs created by udev on startup (maybe there is your problem?) but you could try mknod -m 444 /dev/random c 1 8 mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9 Both commands are taken from Linux from Scratch. There is a static /dev lying on your root-partition. It should have been created when you extracted your stage3-tarball during installation. Maybe there is something wrong with that one and udev doesn't create (u)random when they are not in the static one. To see the static /dev you must unmount /dev, which you can only do from a live-cd. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:38:15 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: To see the static /dev you must unmount /dev, which you can only do from a live-cd. That's not true, you can also see it by bind mounting root somewhere else. mount -bind / /mnt ls -l /mnt/dev -- Neil Bothwick If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. * Wright signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Alex Schuster wrote: Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/dev/random, /dev/urandom] Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could fail? Some kernel option? grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y No, I think they are for special hardware randoem generators only. I don't heve those enabled in my .config. Wonko I don't have those either. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Not sure where that device comes from. I do have them on my system tho. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Hi when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded # No idea as what is going on Thanks and Regards Kaushal
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Kaushal Shriyan writes: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded # No idea as what is going on I can reproduce this behaviour when I rename both /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Are they perhaps both missing on your system? Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? -- Neil Bothwick Never eat more than you can lift. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? -- Neil Bothwick Never eat more than you can lift. Hi Thanks for the clue, Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. How do i go ahead in fixing this issue Thanks and Regards Kaushal
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded # /etc/init.d/sshd restart PRNG is not seeded Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? -- Neil Bothwick Never eat more than you can lift. Hi Thanks for the clue, Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. How do i go ahead in fixing this issue Thanks and Regards Kaushal I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # eselect rc list boot Init scripts to be started by runlevel boot bootmisc checkfs checkroot clock consolefont hostname keymaps localmount modules net.lo rmnologin serial urandom [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # That may help. If it is there, try restarting it and see if you get any errors. Make sure you don't have anything important running just in case it stops other services when restarting this service. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Dale writes: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. How do i go ahead in fixing this issue Thanks and Regards Kaushal I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? Looking at the init script it seems like if the character device /dev/urandom does not exist, it exits directly. Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could fail? You could try to create them manually, but I doubt that this helps: mknod /dev/random c 1 8 mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9 Kayshal, do you remember doing anything spoecial before this happened? Booting a new kernel, updating things like hotplug / udev stuff? Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
