I've been trying to install lang/python38, critically important for further progress building and installing packages from pkgsrc
System is NetBSD-9.99.82 amd64. Build goes through and most of the way through installation, but ends with a green console message [ 386.3532035] entropy: pid 24617 (python) blocking due to lack of entropy This time, I tried again (after Ctrl-C and "make install"), got the same message but with different numbers. This is an awful strange message about failing to install a package. End of build log file was /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/ascii.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/has_key.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/panel.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/textpad.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/pydoc_data/__init__.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/pydoc_data /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/pydoc_data/_pydoc.css /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/pydoc_data /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/pydoc_data /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 `cat pybuilddir.txt`/_sysconfigdata_netbsd9.py /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8; /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./LICENSE /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/LICENSE.txt if test -d /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/distutils/tests; then /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Modules/xxmodule.c /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/distutils/tests ; fi PYTHONPATH=/pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/Python-3.8.10 ./python -E -Wi /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/compileall.py -j0 -d /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8 -f -x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8 On other computer, system crashes and reboots (dirty, so I have to fsck_ffs after reboot) at about this point. What does this entropy error message mean, and is there anything I can do except wait some months, update the system, and try again? Inability to build python38 is a bone in the throat, so much depends on Python. I am at an impasse on NetBSD. Tom
