Hi, On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:36:01PM +0000, massimo s. wrote:
> I noticed that gconf-schemas was hung (even overnight) until ctrl-c is > pressed. [...] > When using ctrl-c python gives the following traceback, showing the > instruction where it hangs: [...] > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 723, in urandom bytes += > read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes)) > At first I tried showtrans on the /dev/random, /dev/urandom devices > and I found they were attached to the unofficial translator > (http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/RandomDevice). Resetting > /dev/random, /dev/urandom by detaching (settrans -fg /dev/urandom) and > then reattaching the translator fixed the bug. If I release the > translator the bug comes out again. Does it also hang if you don't have a translator there at all? >From the above description, it sounds like this is indeed a bug in the urandom translator: The read() operation never returns. There is no simple way to protect against such misbehaviour in a translator, so I don't think there is anything to fix on the Python side. -antrik- _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
