hi, i did what alessandro suggested and here's the console output:
/home/hackmansh-3.1$ ls -l /dev/urandom cr--r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Mar 27 17:57 /dev/urandom /home/hackmansh-3.1$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/25-lfs.rules |grep urandom KERNEL=="urandom", MODE="0444" /home/hackmansh-3.1$ ls -l /var/ total 80 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 02:24 cache drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 27 11:58 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 02:24 local drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 17:57 lock drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 27 19:05 log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 02:23 mail drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 02:24 opt drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 27 12:28 run drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 25 01:54 spool drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Mar 27 19:05 tmp /home/hackmansh-3.1$ ls -l /var/tmp/ total 8 drwx------ 6 hackman 1000 4096 Mar 27 20:21 kdecache-hackman drwx------ 6 root root 4096 Mar 27 16:19 kdecache-root what else can be wrong?? On 3/27/07, Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
