From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 21:41:30 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] syslog-ng test does not work due to lack of random numbers Message-ID: <20190621214130.1074b702@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, The syslog-ng runtime test is no longer working: https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/237108732 I had a look, and the problem is that syslog-ng is stuck when starting, waiting for random numbers. strace shows: [pid 65] open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 65] _newselect(7, [6], NULL, NULL, NULL And then nothing. Adding haveged to the configuration would have been an option, but haveged is started as S21haveged, while syslog-ng is started as S01syslog-ng, so obviously, this won't help. What should we do ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com