openssh unix dev - Mar 2002 - Cannot run OpenSSH 3.1p1 on Solaris 8, Irix 6.5.14, Irix 6.5.4, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 - ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data

I have successfully compiled OpenSSH 3.1p1 for the following systems:
Solaris 8
Solaris 7
Irix 6.5.14
Irix 6.5.4
SunOS 4.1.3_U1

Unfortunately, the new sshd is not working on any of the above systems
with the exception of Solaris 7. (I then put the Solaris 7 executables
on Solaris 8, and they worked there too.)

This is the error I'm getting:
$ /usr/etc/sshd -D -d -d -d
debug3: Seeing PRNG from /usr/libexec/ssh-rand-helper
ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data

I compiled with:
tried both openssl 0.9.6b and 0.9.6c
prngd 0.9.23
zlib 1.1.3

Checking my random number pool shows that I have plenty of bits
available:
$ egc-irix.pl /var/run/egd-pool get
 32800 bits of entropy in pool
$ /usr/sbin/sshd -D -d -d -d
debug3: Seeing PRNG from /usr/libexec/ssh-rand-helper
ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data

Anybody have any ideas?
Andy

-- 
  Andy Ozment
  Research Scientist	
  Georgia Tech College of Computing

I forgot to mention the configure options I used when building the
executables.

Sun OS 4.1.3_U1:
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh \
--with-tcp-wrappers \
--with-utmpx \
--with-prngd-socket=/var/run/egd-pool \
--with-ssl-dir=. \
--with-pid-dir=/var/run \
--with-cppflags="-D_POSIX_VDISABLE"

Irix 6.5.14 / 6.5.4:
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh \
--with-ssl-dir=/usr/lib32 \
--with-tcp-wrappers=/usr/local/lib/libwrap.a \
--with-utmpx \
--with-prngd-socket=/var/run/egd-pool \
--with-ldflags="-L/usr/local/lib" \
--with-pid-dir=/var/run

Solaris 7/8:
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh \
--with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-pam \
--with-tcp-wrappers \
--with-utmpx \
--with-prngd-socket=/var/run/egd-pool \
--with-pid-dir=/var/run \
--with-cppflags="-DPAM_TTY_KLUDGE=1"

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Andy Ozment wrote:
:Checking my random number pool shows that I have plenty of bits
:available:
:$ egc-irix.pl /var/run/egd-pool get
: 32800 bits of entropy in pool
:$ /usr/sbin/sshd -D -d -d -d
:debug3: Seeing PRNG from /usr/libexec/ssh-rand-helper
:ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data

i don't know.  that message is output when ssh-rand-helper does not return
48 bytes of output.

what does:
	ssh-rand-helper|od -b
show?

when you ran configure, did it show the correct path to the prngd socket?