Are you sure the hang you are experiencing isn't just the time it takes your system to gather enough entropy to produce 200 random bytes?
On my netbook it takes as long as 30 seconds before I get 200 bytes of output from /dev/random, but afterwards the qrencode command seems to complete successfully. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033892 Title: qrencode hangs on random input To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qrencode/+bug/1033892/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs