On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 15:56 +0100, Marco A. Calamari wrote: > I installed today Freenet on a headless Soekris 5501 > (Geode I586 compatible processor) running Debian Lenny > > The node hangs during boot with the message > > "There isn't enough entropy available on your system... > Freenet won't start until it can gather enough." > > and stalls forever; the old "find" trick doesn't work > either. > > I suppose that Freenet uses /dev/random as entropy source; > can I redirect on urandom ?
Sorry for the answer, I found the solution myself. It is an interesting issue, worth reading. Geode has an excellent hw RNG, but Debian installs the conventional software one that uses HD, mouse and keyboard. All those entropy sources are not present or doesn't work on Soekris. Installing the Debian package rng-tools installs a daemon that uses Geode RNG and give an excellent entropy source Happy RANDoming ! -- +--------------- http://www.winstonsmith.info ---------------+ | il Progetto Winston Smith: scolleghiamo il Grande Fratello | | the Winston Smith Project: unplug the Big Brother | | Marco A. Calamari mar...@marcoc.it http://www.marcoc.it | | DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B | + PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 ----------+
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