svn commit: r256377 - in head: problems on ARM BEAGLEBONE

[Glen Barber]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 06:07:58PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 12:57 +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> > Author: markm
> > Date: Sat Oct 12 12:57:57 2013
> > New Revision: 256377
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256377
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Merge from project branch. Uninteresting commits are trimmed.
> >   
> >   [snip]
> > *** DIFF OUTPUT TRUNCATED AT 1000 LINES ***
> 
> I rebuilt my beaglebone sandbox today after syncing to the latest
> -current and this happened:
> 
> 
>  FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #4 r256393: Sat Oct 12 17:05:43 MDT 2013
>  ilepore at revolution.hippie.lan:/local/build/staging/freebsd/bb/obj/arm.armv6/local/build/staging/freebsd/bb/src/sys/BB arm
>  ...
>  random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
>  Falling back to <Dummy entropy device that always blocks> random adaptor
>  random: <Dummy entropy device that always blocks> initialized
>  ...
>  Setting hostid: 0xdcf01d1d.
>  Entropy harvesting:sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt': No such file or directory
>   interruptssysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet': No such file or directory
>   ethernetsysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point': No such file or directory
>   point_to_pointsysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.harvest.swi': No such file or directory
>   swi.
>  Starting file system checks:
>  mount_nfs: can't update /var/db/mounttab for 172.22.42.240:/bb
>  Mounting local file systems:.
>  Writing entropy file:random: dummy device blocking on read.
> 
> 
> If you remove "device random" from the config then it says only "random
> device not loaded; using insecure entropy" early in boot, and it doesn't
> block during rc processing.  What's being used in that case,
> arc4random()?
> 
> It looks like the cause of the problem is that both the dummy and the
> yarrow generators register, dummy first, and so it gets chosen even
> though yarrow is available.
> 
> 

This is being fixed right now, please standby for the relevant commits
to hit the tree.

Glen

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