On 12/06/2012 03:30 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
On 12/04/2012 11:57 PM, Ming Liu wrote:
/etc/init.d/urandom fails to start/stop because it tries to save
random-seed into /var/lib/urandom folder which does not exist in the
file system.

Fixed by creating /var/lib/urandom at do_install time.

Signed-off-by: Ming Liu <[email protected]>
---
  meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb | 4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
index d25838b..39be9a8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Initscripts provide the basic system startup initialization scrip
  SECTION = "base"
  LICENSE = "GPLv2"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
-PR = "r137"
+PR = "r138"

  INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"

@@ -133,4 +133,6 @@ do_install () {
      fi

install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/device_table.txt ${D}${sysconfdir}/device_table
+    # Holds state information pertaining to urandom
+    install -d ${D}/var/lib/urandom

I thought this would go in volatiles, not here.

Sau!

Hi Saul,

From my understanding, volatiles is a configuration file which deals with files related with volatile storage. Files, directories and links related to volatile storage should be in this file, as it's a final method to check and make sure they are created properly. But files under /var/lib should not there.

So in my option, this patch is ok.

Thanks,
Chen Qi

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