Zac Medico wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
uname -a
Linux energy 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #2 Thu Jul 14 07:37:15 CEST 2005 i686
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
it bootet fine with devfs, oh, and the config is the same since ages,
three days later, I switched to udev.
Btw, I greped the config for random/urandom, there was nothing found.
Hm, where should I look?
There's no Kconfig option because the random number generator is a
required feature. I don't see how it could be a udev issue because
the /dev/urandom device file is either there or not and after that
it's the kernel's responsibility. I would build a new kernel.
Zac
You can pretty quickly determine if it is a kernel problem or a udev
problem by adding a
'ls -l /dev/urandom' to /etc/init.d/urandom:
start() {
[...]
ls -l /dev/urandom # debug strangeness
ebegin "Initializing random number generator"
umask 077
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/run/random-seed count=1 &> /dev/null
Also, only the display options for devfs were removed from 2.6.12, the
code and config option in .config are still there. Can you double check
your kernel config, and make sure that "# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set".
I think if you copied an old kernel config, you could have devfs support
still in your kernel, which might cause some strange behavior. I'm not
sure.
-Richard
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