Re: diskless -current/amd64, entropy, and meson

[Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio%gmail.com@localhost>]

Em sex, 2020-10-02 às 00:39 -0500, John D. Baker escreveu:

I seem to recall a thread on this, possibly with other tools involved,

but on a diskless (netboot/NFSroot) -current (9.99.73) amd64 host,

packages building with 'meson' get stuck in WCHAN="entrop".

So far, building "devel/orc", "devel/gdbus-codegen" and "devel/mm-common"

get stuck, presumedly because there is insufficient entropy to satisfy

'meson'.

The host in question normally runs 9.0_STABLE from local disk and had

no problem rebuilding packages during the recent freeze for pkgsrc-2020Q3.

It runs -current disklessly although still using the on-disk swap partition

and some data partitions on local disk.  "/tmp" is on tmpfs.

Any thoughts on this?  How to inject/generate more entropy?

cat < /dev/random (blocks)

solution (one time only)

dd count=10 if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/randon

than cat < /dev/random works...

save the entropy file =>  service random_seed  restart