Bug#285371: Still a problem.

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-12-20 "Yazz D. Atlas" <yazz@230volts.net> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> >time ./exim_gnutls-params -v --indefinitely /var/spool/exim4
> >

> I modified /etc/passwd so the user Debian-exim actually had a shell just
> for testing.

Sorry, I should've written
time su Debian-exim -s '/bin/sh' -c "./exim_gnutls-params -v --indefinitely /var/spool/exim4"
[...]
>> What does
>> sysctl -n kernel/random/entropy_avail
>> say on your system?

> # sysctl -n kernel/random/entropy_avail
> 0

That is bad. :-(

> I just can't seem to get any entropy on this system. Adding a line to
> /etc/sysctl.conf like...  kernel/random/entropy_avail=3584 didn't help
> either. Just causes an error message. Even rebooted the system...
[...]

kernel/random/entropy_avail is a status indicator, you cannot write in
there.

You do not have a board with bultin RNG, by any chance do you?
modprobe -v hw_random
               cu andreas
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