On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:35:34 anirudh vij wrote:

> i compiled kde and i am right now using konqueror!
> there are some problems though
>
> whenever i start linux ther's a warning
>
> could not start random number generator
>
>
> on shutting down
>
> could not save random seed
>
> i did make install-random from the blfs-bootscripts dir as root.
> why is this happening?

/etc/rc.d/init.d/random needs /dev/urandom to initialise kernel
random number generator, which is created by this rule in 
/etc/udev/rules.d/25-lfs.rules:

KERNEL=="urandom",  MODE="0444"

You can start checking if you have /dev/urandom and
if you have the previous udev rule in 25-lfs.rules.
Also check if you have /var/tmp directory properly installed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 4096 27 mar 13:50 /var/tmp

HTH, Alessandro Alocci.
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