From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Entropy on boot
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:16:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050620211638.GB10675@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050620202549.A6907@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com>
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Paul Warren wrote:
> We've recently prepared a filesystem image for the latest Debian
> distribution, and hit a problem with it hanging on starting Apache2. We
> traced this to a lack of entropy to feed /dev/random, causing the
> Apache's startssl to block.
>
> Chris Lightfoot has developed this patch to feed the guest's entropy
> pool with data read from the host's /dev/random on boot:
>
> http://mythic-beasts.com/uml/random-seed.patch
>
> Paul
Are you using UML's hwrng driver? Did it not help?
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-20 19:25 [uml-devel] Entropy on boot Paul Warren
2005-06-20 21:16 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-06-21 18:50 ` Paul Warren
2005-06-21 21:02 ` Jeff Dike
2005-06-21 21:19 ` Chris Lightfoot
2005-06-21 22:13 ` Paul Warren
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