anirudh vij schreef:
> 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.
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You might want to redo your ls -ld of /var/tmp, now with the d added :-)
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