On Thursday 28 July 2005 20:59, Zac Medico wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thursday 28 July 2005 08:51, Zarick Lau wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>>I switched from devfs to udev 10 days ago, and since then every > >>>nth boot will hang at 'initializing random number generator' > >> > >>It try to read a /dev/urandom, does this device node created properly by > >>udev. In my box, there is corresponding rules in udev setting. > >> > >>Cheers, > >>Zarick Lau > > > > grep -R 'urandom' /etc/udev/ > > /etc/udev/udev.permissions:urandom:root:root:0444 > > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="urandom", NAME="%k", > > MODE="0444" > > > > I would say 'yes it is there' ;) > > > > Hm, one more: it does not matter, if it is a coldboot, or a reboot. > > Sometimes it hangs. sometimes it hangs not. > > It must be a problem with the urandom driver in your kernel because the > urandom(4) manpage says that "A read from the /dev/urandom device will not > block waiting for more entropy". > > Zac
uname -a Linux energy 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #2 Thu Jul 14 07:37:15 CEST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux it bootet fine with devfs, oh, and the config is the same since ages, three days later, I switched to udev. Btw, I greped the config for random/urandom, there was nothing found. Hm, where should I look? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
