Re: PRNG is not seeded error

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Siju George wrote:

> I am getting this error on dragonfly while updating pkgsrc
> 
> dfly-bkpsrv# make pkgsrc-update
> cd /usr;  cvs -d anoncvs%anoncvs.NetBSD.org@localhost:/cvsroot -q update -Pd 
> pkgsrc
> PRNG is not seeded
> cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr.
> 
> How do I solve it?

If the problem is on the remote side, try again. (I don't see problem 
now.)

If the problem is on your side, make sure your /dev/urandom (or 
/dev/random) device exists.

I can't find where that error comes from. (I found "PRNG not seeded" 
without the "is".)