coyrls wrote: > I'm getting a number of messages in the form: "[ 12.526153] random: > slimserver.pl: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)", also with 32, > 64 and 256 bytes read, at the end of my dmesg output. Is this anything > to worry about? It suggests that the process slimserver.pl is trying to > read unrandom before it is initialised. From the information here: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Random_number_generation#/dev/urandom > , the suggestion would be to use the getrandom() system call rather than > reading the /dev/urandom device.
It's because running headless, the linux kernel doesn't have the many sources for entropy, so it takes time. If you are really bothered by it, you can install a rng daemon, that will use the rpi processor hardware entropy generator to fill the random pool. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it for a Music server. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if you like the piCorePlayer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paul-'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58858 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110727 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
