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Re: WARNING: couldn't open /var/db/entropy-file
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 09:57:17PM +0100, fstd.lkml%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
> The odd thing now is, the warnings disappear by merely dropping into the
> bootloader prompt, and typing ``boot -12'', i.e. just what it would normally
> do after the timeout expires; that leaves me completely puzzled.
For the record, that turned out to be because ``rndseed /var/db/entropy-file''
is executed before loading the kernel (as per /boot.cfg), which evaded my
grep-ing below /usr/src/sys.
Thus, the whole issue coalesces to ``loading early entropy does not work'',
which I am further investigating.
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