Michael Lake wrote:
I have 'svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/TheProject' hanging on a Debian stable box running subversionn 1.1.4. Googling finds that the problem is that there is not enough entropy and suggests a recompile of I think libapr0.
I have found it in Debian Bug report logs - #285708 (subversion: svnserve hangs if little entropy for /dev/random) but this dates from 2004.
It suggesed this:
Perhaps also make rng-tools a suggested package. This solved the problem for me, but I think it would need a comment as to *why* rng-tools is suggested. Also, rng-tools won't work on all machines - it needs the hw_random kernel module or equivalent.
On the server the package rng-tools is available but how do i tell if the kernel supports hw_random or whatever is required? Has anyone used this package and would it help?
I also found this dated Jan 2006: http://blogs.herod.net/steven/archives/category/
The solution is to: 1. download source version of subversion 2. Configure it to use /dev/urandom not /dev/random 3. make and then install And it will work!
But I don't want to recompile as then I will have packages that are not updated. Mike -- Michael Lake Science Faculty, UTS Ph: 9514 8232 Fx: 9514 1460 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
