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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] hang generating DSA keys
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5yfezka.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090522142624.2FEF618005F@silver.osuosl.org> (Chris Bare's message of "Fri\, 22 May 2009 10\:25\:53 -0400 \(EDT\)")

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Bare <chris@bareflix.com> writes:

 Chris> Generating DSA Key...
 Chris> THIS CAN TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO DEPENDING ON YOUR PROCESSOR!

 Chris> Generating public/private dsa key pair.

 Chris> I let it sit overnight and it never finished. I remember
 Chris> seeing some mention of this being an entropy problem. I tried
 Chris> pinging the board, but that didn't seem to help.

 Chris> Any idea why this would suddenly start with the same basic
 Chris> setup that worked before?  How do I get it to finish
 Chris> generating the key?

Sounds odd - Could you add strace and check what it's busy doing?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-24  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-22 14:25 [Buildroot] hang generating DSA keys Chris Bare
2009-05-24  7:21 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-24 18:22 Frank Hoeflich
2009-05-24 19:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-06-02 15:52   ` Chris Bare

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