Re: kern/55641: Recent changes to random/entropy "pkgsrc devel brick" an Intel Ivy Bridge system, with workaround

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55641; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: davshao%gmail.com@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/55641: Recent changes to random/entropy "pkgsrc devel brick" an Intel Ivy Bridge system, with workaround
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 02:26:00 +0000

 > Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2020 18:40:25 +0000 (UTC)
 > From: davshao%gmail.com@localhost
 > 
 > After updating NetBSD current a couple of weeks ago, building pkgsrc
 > devel/glib2 would stop on an Intel Ivy Bridge machine (Asus P8H77-V)
 > motherboard, i3 CPU) at a line ending in something like
 > 
 > . output
 > 
 > That is what I mean by "pkgsrc devel bricking".  Rebuilding the
 > system, reinstalling the system, nothing will fix this.
 > 
 > Pressing Ctrl-C, on this system, I discovered building devel/glib2
 > stopped in a line calling a random number function.  Then I remember
 > seeing on boot a line flashing by talking about entropy.
 
 Can you please share the dmesg output, and share whatever kind of
 trace led you to conclude `building devel/glib2 stopped in a line
 calling a random number function'?  Can you also share any relevant ps
 or pstree output?
 
 When did you last update before your most recent update a couple of
 weeks ago?