Hello All, I upgrade a very old machine from 6.3-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE by 'freebsd-update'. After boot with 8.1 GENERIC kernel, it holds-on at ''Entropy harvesting: '. I try to change configuration in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it helpless. harvest_interrupt="NO" # Entropy device harvests interrupt randomness harvest_ethernet="NO" # Entropy device harvests ethernet randomness harvest_p_to_p="NO" # Entropy device harvests point-to-point randomness Then, I 'chmod 0 /etc/rc.d/initrandom'. The 8.1 skipped 'Entropy harvesting', but hold-on again at 'pre-seeding PRNG'. Any suggestion? Thanks and happy Lantern Festival.
Daniel O'Connor
2011-Feb-17 06:40 UTC
hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1
On 17/02/2011, at 16:26, Ken Chen wrote:> I upgrade a very old machine from 6.3-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE by > 'freebsd-update'. After boot with 8.1 GENERIC kernel, it holds-on at > ''Entropy harvesting: '. I try to change configuration in > /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it helpless. > > > harvest_interrupt="NO" # Entropy device harvests interrupt randomness > harvest_ethernet="NO" # Entropy device harvests ethernet randomness > harvest_p_to_p="NO" # Entropy device harvests point-to-point randomness > > > Then, I 'chmod 0 /etc/rc.d/initrandom'. The 8.1 skipped 'Entropy > harvesting', but hold-on again at 'pre-seeding PRNG'. > > Any suggestion? Thanks and happy Lantern Festival.You should re-enable those, they help feed the entropy pool. You can seed it with a file by setting entropy_file in rc.conf to a file full of (hopefully) random junk. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
On 02/16/2011 21:56, Ken Chen wrote:> Hello All, > > I upgrade a very old machine from 6.3-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE by > 'freebsd-update'. After boot with 8.1 GENERIC kernel, it holds-on at > ''Entropy harvesting: '. I try to change configuration in > /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it helpless.Did you update /etc after updating the binaries, or is this the first reboot after freebsd-update installs the new kernel? Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/