Messages in this thread |  | | From | devnull@spaans ... | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:17:18 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | PROBLEM: get_random_bytes called before random device initialization |
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Salve, Recently I've compiled two 2.4.0 series kernels: test4 and test7. However, I can't use them at all -- they're starting with this error:
kernel: get_random_bytes called before random device initialization.
The whole screen (and more, more...) gets filled with this information. I'm not a kernel-hacker nor a c-programmer, but I managed to recompile kernel with modified get_random_bytes procedure. Basically, i've replaced printk call with return call. Then, after recompiling and reboot, the system has hung. I was able to read what was before this error: IrDA protocol was starting (and, obviously, it didn't started). Now I've made whole IrDA part of the kernel as a modules and will check if this works (kernel won't load the irda drivers on startup, but later I must do it manually).
Voila! After reboot: Linux kanton 2.4.0-test7 #7 sob wrz 2 12:03:36 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
So... I'm reporting this to this list, because I don't know whom to contact: IrDA folks, or maybe kernel's?
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