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Am 04.02.2016 um 21:07 schrieb Bastian Blank:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 03:04:39AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> For some reasons, this fails on your system. Any idea why? When exactly
>> did you get this error?
> 
> Actually I found it in the meantime.  /, including /var, was read-only.
> 
> The resppnsible code reads:
> 
> | seed_fd = open(RANDOM_SEED, O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY|O_CREAT, 0600);
> | if (seed_fd < 0) {
> |         seed_fd = open(RANDOM_SEED, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY);
> 
> So it ignores the error given by the first call (EROFS), which would be
> a clear indication, and only provides the useless second one.

True, it should probably log the error message. Will forward this issue
upstream.


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