I get some of those in my .xsession-errors file:


localuser:paul being added to access control list

dbus[823]: Failed to start message bus: Failed to generate UUID: Could not open 
/dev/urandom: No such file or directory

EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon

dbus-update-activation-environment: not on Linux, ignoring --systemd argument

dbus-update-activation-environment: error: unable to connect to D-Bus: 
/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: EOF in 
dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon



This seems to result in Xorg trying to abort, but not having the rights to do 
so... sorry I will try recopy exact message when I see it... if useful.



I also remember that during installation, I think package zlib1g, complains 
about /dev/random file not existing...

wait: now reading:

paul@debian:~$ cat /hurd/random-hurd.sh

#!/bin/sh

exec /hurd/random --seed-file /var/lib/random-seed



I now think the error message in the installer was that /var/lib/random-seed 
did not exist.



So we have /dev/random... but not /dev/urandom



Searching "urandom vs random" I get:

"

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'Urandom' is used where there is constant need of random numbers and its 
randomness is not much important while 'random' is used where there is a 
security concern and its randomness should be reliable as it blocks outputting 
random numbers if entropy is not up to the mark."



So it looks like /dev/urandom should be easier to get than /dev/random... maybe 
I could "settrans -cp /dev/urandom /hurd/random"?

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