We need to install corosync without user interaction, so that solution is even 
worse than the previous behavior. Can't we use /dev/urandom instead (AFAIK even 
ssh uses that to generate private keys)?

- Dietmar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:openais-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Dake
> Sent: Montag, 17. August 2009 19:12
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Openais] corosync trunk request user to generate entropy
> 
> The current corosync-keygen application will fail to work at all if the
> entropy pool of /dev/random of the machine is empty.  This results in
> random errors from corosync-keygen and a authkey not being created.
> 
> Now we ask the user to execute key press operations to help generate
> some random events in the system to fill in the entropy pool for our
> randomly generated key.

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