From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:21:25 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] hang generating DSA keys In-Reply-To: <20090522142624.2FEF618005F@silver.osuosl.org> (Chris Bare's message of "Fri\, 22 May 2009 10\:25\:53 -0400 \(EDT\)") References: <20090522142624.2FEF618005F@silver.osuosl.org> Message-ID: <87r5yfezka.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Bare 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