Heya,
I have compiled and installed OpenSSH on a Solaris/Sparc machine and
whenever I try to start any of the ssh programs I get
"fatal: PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting"
Now, I have looked through the mailing lists and have seen some mention
that this indicates it can't open the ssh_prng_cmds file, which
entropy.c also seems to indicate the problem is. However, this snippet
from truss would indicate it opened it fine and started reading it:
open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_prng_cmds", O_RDONLY) = 3
brk(0x000E6DB8) = 0
brk(0x000E8DB8) = 0
fstat64(3, 0xFFBEECD8) = 0
brk(0x000E8DB8) = 0
brk(0x000EADB8) = 0
ioctl(3, TCGETA, 0xFFBEEC64) Err#25 ENOTTY
read(3, " # e n t r o p y g a".., 8192) = 1517
read(3, 0x000E79CC, 8192) = 0
fstat(-1, 0xFFBEEDE8) Err#9 EBADF
fstat(-1, 0xFFBEE1B8) Err#9 EBADF
Not sure that those last EBADF from fstat are referring to.. I'm not
that good with truss..
Anyone know what the problem is? Or where I can start looking to solve
it?
Could you reply to me as I'm not on the list..
Cheers guys!
-- joe.
How many good cmds are their in the ssh_prng_cmds. If you don't have at least 16 source you need at least 16. Look at /usr/local/etc/ssh_prng_cmds and count how many cmds are not undefined. You may have to add more sun specific commands to ssh_prng_cmds.in. At 05:58 PM 1/8/01 +0000, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote:>Heya, > >I have compiled and installed OpenSSH on a Solaris/Sparc machine and >whenever I try to start any of the ssh programs I get >"fatal: PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting" > >Now, I have looked through the mailing lists and have seen some mention >that this indicates it can't open the ssh_prng_cmds file, which >entropy.c also seems to indicate the problem is. However, this snippet >from truss would indicate it opened it fine and started reading it: > >open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_prng_cmds", O_RDONLY) = 3 >brk(0x000E6DB8) = 0 >brk(0x000E8DB8) = 0 >fstat64(3, 0xFFBEECD8) = 0 >brk(0x000E8DB8) = 0 >brk(0x000EADB8) = 0 >ioctl(3, TCGETA, 0xFFBEEC64) Err#25 ENOTTY >read(3, " # e n t r o p y g a".., 8192) = 1517 >read(3, 0x000E79CC, 8192) = 0 >fstat(-1, 0xFFBEEDE8) Err#9 EBADF >fstat(-1, 0xFFBEE1B8) Err#9 EBADF > >Not sure that those last EBADF from fstat are referring to.. I'm not >that good with truss.. > >Anyone know what the problem is? Or where I can start looking to solve >it? > >Could you reply to me as I'm not on the list.. > >Cheers guys! > > -- joe.
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote:> Heya, > > I have compiled and installed OpenSSH on a Solaris/Sparc machine and > whenever I try to start any of the ssh programs I get > "fatal: PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting" > > Now, I have looked through the mailing lists and have seen some mention > that this indicates it can't open the ssh_prng_cmds file, which > entropy.c also seems to indicate the problem is. However, this snippet > from truss would indicate it opened it fine and started reading it:Doing a "ssh -v -v -v" is the best way to debug PRNG failures, it turns on a lot of additional debugging. -d -- | ``We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on | Damien Miller - | a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the | <djm at mindrot.org> | works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, / | we know this is not true.'' - Robert Wilensky UCB / http://www.mindrot.org