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