--On 16 July 2009 13:49 + stopeme wrote:
The reason for the shutdown hang is that '/etc/rc.d/random' rm's the
'/entropy' file if it exists as the system shuts down, and that rm
never returns (the error output is redirected so you never see the
errors) :(
grep entropy | /etc/defaults/rc
Karl Pielorz wrote:
Hi,
I've got a 7.2-RELEASE box that has it's root file system mounted
read/only via NFS. It hangs when trying to shutdown, at the "Writing
entropy file:" point.
Having chased this down - it hangs *any* time you try to rm' a file
off of the filesystem.
e.g. If I do:
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