Re: firefox2-2.0beta2 "where has my entropy gone"

To: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: firefox2-2.0beta2 "where has my entropy gone"
From: Mark Davies <mark%mcs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:31:42 +1200

On Thursday 07 September 2006 20:07, David Brownlee wrote:
>       Has anyone else noticed firefox2-2.0beta2 blocking on /dev/random
>       for quite some time on startup? Its got to the point where I run
>       I 'fsck -fn' to get enough entropy in the pool to start it...

Do you have the libgcrypt-1.2.3 package installed?  It broke firefox-1.5.0.6 
for me in the way you describe because it used /dev/random instead 
of /dev/urandom.  libgcrypt-1.2.3nb1 fixes this.

cheers
mark

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