https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83436
--- Comment #5 from Daan van Vugt <daanvanvugt at gmail dot com> --- Okay, turned out I missed the critical lines in my bug report... Could you try again with this example? module mod_random_seed implicit none contains !> Read an int from /dev/urandom subroutine read_urandom_int(seed, ierr) implicit none integer, intent(out) :: seed integer, intent(out) :: ierr integer :: un character(len=80) :: restart_file write(restart_file,'(A,A)') 'jorek', '_restart.h5' open(newunit=un, file="/dev/urandom", access="stream", & form="unformatted", action="read", status="old", iostat=ierr) if (ierr == 0) then read(un) seed close(un) end if end subroutine read_urandom_int end module mod_random_seed program test_random_seed use mod_random_seed integer :: seed, ierr call read_urandom_int(seed, ierr) write(*,*) seed, ierr end program test_random_seed I have compiled it as: mpif90 -march=native -cpp -fopenmp -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-variable -g -Og -ggdb -Wunused-variable -Wintrinsics-std -Wcharacter-truncation -Wsurprising -Wno-tabs -ffree-line-length-none -fcheck=all -ffpe-trap=invalid,zero,overflow -ftrapv -finit-real=snan -finit-integer=12345678 -Wimplicit-interface -Wimplicit-procedure -Wconversion -fimplicit-none read_urandom.f90 -o read_urandom This produces for me: At line 16 of file read_urandom.f90 Fortran runtime error: Internal file cannot be accessed by UNFORMATTED data transfer Error termination. Backtrace: #0 0x14fc70240043 in data_transfer_init at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgfortran/io/transfer.c:2822 #1 0x55c83ae10e31 in __mod_random_seed_MOD_read_urandom_int at /media/data/Projects/gfortran/bugs/internal_file_urandom/read_urandom.f90:16 #2 0x55c83ae10ebd in test_random_seed at /media/data/Projects/gfortran/bugs/internal_file_urandom/read_urandom.f90:25 #3 0x55c83ae10f63 in main at /media/data/Projects/gfortran/bugs/internal_file_urandom/read_urandom.f90:23