Re: Error with random generator

Almudena Garcia <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Jun 2018 13:52:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.general
Message-ID <CA+vQsMhjGvKg8CH0WXOQ=pmyXbtB6OH7eMJotLLGEW3COaBFkw@mail.gmail.com>
Finnaly, by any reason, the /dev/random and /dev/urandom don't shows any
new error, and start without problems.
I tried restart the server, but It says that the device or resource is busy.

How can I restart the server? I want to add the correct file in the server

2018-06-04 12:03 GMT+02:00 Almudena Garcia <[email protected]>:

> Ok. Then I will try what do you said.
> Thanks
>
> 2018-06-03 11:29 GMT+02:00 Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>:
>
>> Almudena Garcia, le dim. 03 juin 2018 11:21:51 +0200, a ecrit:
>> > After seatch, I detected that /var/run/random-seed file don't exists.
>> >
>> > I created this using
>> >
>> > cat /dev/random > /var/run/random-seed
>>
>> The thing is: the random translator is supposed to be reading from
>> /var/spool/random-seed, not /var/run/random-seed (since the latter
>> doesn't survive reboots).
>>
>> > settrans -c /dev/urandom /hurd/random \
>> >            --seed-file /var/run/urandom-seed --fast
>>
>> Again, rather make it use /var/spool/random-seed, otherwise the fix
>> won't survive a reboot.
>>
>> Samuel
>>
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