On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 06:42:20 -0000 (UTC) mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
> germain.lechapel...@lanvaux.fr (Germain Le Chapelain) writes: > > >This time the crash was in pkg_add itself (=E2=80=98segmentation fault (core= > > dump)=E2=80=99) > > [...] Removing /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.byfile.db and > rebuilding it with "pkg_admin rebuild" helped. Thank you kindly for your answer, Mr. van Elst; Later I came across another email about pkgdb moving from /var/db to /usr/pkg I also got a message about that later on (trying to build from pkgsrc after using pkg_add) the message instructed to simply move the db which sounded a bit too good to be true. After doing so I was getting circular dependencies in cwrappers. I remember the email/ update -I forgot- had additional instructions regarding something-pkg-2020-10-20 and that was actually part of the error message, but.. .. I figured I should not mix pre-built binary install w/ current code. Or at least not do so and complain ;) So I did a blank re-install of current (9.99.76 ?) and I am now back to the earlier problem of the entropy (Re-included riastradh) It's building firefox again, I haven't yet tried any work-around mentioned in the email introducing the change But I am confused about the issue, why this arises. I thought the way randomness was implemented is that you would initialize one seed-number to an amd64 and it would pass you back random #s, anytime and at any rate, *guaranteed* to be random, provided that for sure your initial # was random... Anyways. I will dig in .. things.. Right now , I am going over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND and I am on board with that so far.. :/ Thank you! Kindest regards, -- Germain Le Chapelain <germain.lechapel...@lanvaux.fr>
