[WBEL-users] /dev/random hangs

[Fredo Sartori]

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Hi all,

I'm running wbel with kernel 2.4.21-4.ELsmp. A few days ago I noticed an
apache hanging during startup. strace showed that apache tried to read
from /dev/random without getting any data. A "cat /dev/random" did not
produce any output either, even if I waited for some minutes. "cat
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail" returned 0, constantly. Rebooting
the box solved the problem only temporarily.

Any hints are welcome ...

Fredo

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