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Author: s
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] How to fix rng-tools hang
Hello All,

> Hello all,
> I got a strange message from serial console, debugging a image that I am building..
> The system hangs on startup..
>
> [ ok ] Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
> Starting Hardware RNG entropy gatherer daemon: (Hardware RNG device inode not found)
> /etc/init.d/rng-tools: Cannot find a hardware RNG device to use.
> [ ok ] Starting system message bus: dbus.
> [FAIL] startpar: service(s) returned failure: rng-tools ... failed!
>
>


Just to clarify,
Recent kernels use a Hardware RNG.. so in systems that doesn't have one, you need a Kconfig opion
RANDOM_TRUST_CPU

Best Regards,
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tux <tuxd3v@???>