Re: [Manuel Bouyer] pkgsrc-2019Q2 NetBSD 8.0/i386 2019-06-30 20:03

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 06:20:36PM +0000, nia wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:59:49PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 04:22:55PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > For those not following bulk, rust seems broken on 8.0/i386.
> > 
> > If I remember properly, I had to kill it. It wasn't making any progress,
> > with all threads sleeping.
> > 
> > It may not fail this way all the time.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
> >      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> > --
> 
> Entropy problem? The bootstrap compiler is still reading from
> /dev/random whenever it wants randomness.
> 
> A temporary hack to avoid that until the bootstrap compiler
> receives the random crate fixes would be to make /dev/random
> a link to /dev/urandom.

Yes, that could be it. The build host is a Xen guest, it doesn't
have a hardware RNG and as most files are on tmpfs, entropy from disks
is minimal.
I added xennet0 as a rnd source, let see if this helps.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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