Florent Daignière wrote: > * Jano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-18 > 13:21:33]: > >> Since the last version #1153, my node takes a very long time to start (half >> an hour or more). Trying to load the homepage gives a page saying that >> "Freenet is starting up", and below: >> >> Not enough entropy is available! >> There isn't enough entropy available on your system... Freenet won't start >> until it can gather enough. >> >> This node runs in an unattended box, so any entropy sources will be >> non-human. I have read somewhere that /dev/random is slow to refill and can >> be exhausted easily if used too much. Could this be part of the problem? >> > > This is the problem. > > Launch a "find / >/dev/null" from a different shell and that should help > the OS to refill the entropy pool.
I'm going to try this, it's been two hours now with the node stuck waiting. *** It worked. I know /dev/urandom is less secure, is there a likely possibility of attacks if urandom is used instead? _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
