Re: Strange error concerning random seed

[Mark Burgess]

Ralph, I'm not sure why this occurs now and not earlier. It has to do
with the random key generation and is used in all challenge response
sections. It might be that you have upgraded openssl. That is where the
error originates. One solution is to simply start running cfenvd. That
is a good and harmless way to seed the random number generator.

Mark

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 13:57 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since updating to 2.1.13 I get the following error when trying to run
> > cfrun or cfagent:
> > 
> > | RandomSeed() work directory is /local/var/cfengine
> > | Looking for a source of entropy in /local/var/cfengine/cf_learning.db
> > | cfrun:forge.: Could not read sufficient randomness from 
> > /local/var/cfengine/cf_learning.db
> > 
> > a) I don't have that file
> > b) I'm pretty sure, that I never had it
> > c) It never gave me that error
> 
> The error just came up again on the "repository server". cfagent runs
> just fine, "cfrun hostname" dies again with the above error message.
> 
> No, cf_learning.db does *not* exist on my system. And: Why does this
> suddenly happen with 2.1.13, while it didn't happen with 2.1.10?
> crypto.c didn't change that much between those releases.
> 
> Ralph
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