Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/urandom-scripts: do not seed if initial seed doesn't exist

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>>   <Eugen.Hristev@microchip.com> writes:

 > On 4/16/22 4:47 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >>>>>>> "Jason" == Jason A Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> writes:
 >> 
 >> > By returning a failure in the event that the initial seed doesn't exist,
 >> > we'd then skip creating a new seed, which means we'd never in fact have
 >> > an initial seed, and this script is therefore useless. Fix this by
 >> > checking for the existence of the seed file first, and just returning 0
 >> > if it's not there.
 >> 
 >> > Reported-by: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@green-communications.fr>
 >> > Reported-by: Eugen Hristev <Eugen.Hristev@microchip.com>
 >> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
 >> 
 >> Committed, thanks.
 >> 
 >> --
 >> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
 >> 


 > Hi Jason,

 > I cherry-picked this patch to my 2022.02.1 tree, and rebuilt my images.
 > I still see this message at boot time :

 > "Initializing random number generator: FAIL"

 > Any ideas about what I could try ?

Not really. If you see the message, then that must mean that
/var/lib/random-seed exists in your rootfs. Can you provide some more
details about your setup, E.G. what kind of rootfs file system, is it
mounted R/W, what platform, kernel version?

What error message do you get from dd if you run the dd to /dev/urandom
statement manually?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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