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Re: [Monotone-devel] fatal: Botan::PRNG_Unseeded
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Jack Lloyd |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] fatal: Botan::PRNG_Unseeded |
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:04:09 -0400 |
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:38:25AM -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
> We're porting monotone to the Lynx operating system. So far it passes
> the first set of unit tests.
>
> The problem at the moment is this error:
>
> fatal: Botan::PRNG_Unseeded
>
> It's complaining that it was unable to collect enough entropy.
>
> We use ssh on the same platform, and it manages to collect enough
> entropy, so there is probably a way around this. We're looking into
> what ssh does for this.
>
The build configuration in n.v.m's botan/ assumes /dev/*random exists.
Botan ships with other entropy gathering code for Unix-like systems
that may work (nothing has ever been tested on Lynx though, AFAIK).
-Jack