On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:17:51PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > this worked a couple of weeks ago. I alread chmoded o+rw /dev/random, but > this has not helped.
> $ ls -l /dev/random > crw-rw-rw- 1 root dialout 1, 8 9. Sep 11:36 /dev/random > $ sudo /etc/init.d/slapd start > Starting OpenLDAP: slapd - failed: > Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected > My hunch was that with my update of the sysv-rc bits something is no > longer detected/started that was started before. > Just while panicking around, /etc/init.d/urandom start does not make a > difference, the problem was > $ ls -l /dev/urandom > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 1, 9 9. Sep 18:13 /dev/urandom > A chmod o+rw /dev/urandom fixed the problem, i.e. slapd then started. > I don't know what the problem is here. Somehow the group "dialout" for > /dev/urandom seems strange. Yes, it is strange (and wrong). But the bug doesn't lie with slapd; something else broke your /dev/urandom. Closing this bug, since I have no idea where to reassign it. Feel free to reopen / reassign if you can figure out which package broke your device. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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