Coda File System

Re: Long hangs on /dev/random

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt_at_metux.de>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 23:17:55 +0200
* Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:43:21PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > I've noticed sometimes really long hangs on venus startup. 
> > strace showed up that it hangs on reading from /dev/random. 
> > Seems the device waits until it got enough entropy.
> > 
> > Any suggestion how to work around this ? 
> 
> You could upgrade rpc2 to version 2.5.

Ah, Gentoo's ebuilds are quite, quite outdated. Their last
version is 2.0 ;-O

I'm working on fresh ebuilds ...


cu
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