file:/dev/random generated exception: null

[Daniel Fisher]

Looks like you ran out of random bytes in /dev/random, which is not
uncommon.
If you want to avoid this error use /dev/urandom.
-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom

-- 
Daniel Fisher

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:17:22 +0200
Marcin Gryszkalis <mg at fork.pl> wrote:

> I happened just once, anybody noticed anything similar?
> It's on p3, I'm going to upgrade to p4 today.
> 
> bash-2.05b$ java -version
> java version "1.4.1-p3"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
> 1.4.1-p3-root_02_jun_2003_23_31) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build
> 1.4.1-p3-root_02_jun_2003_23_31, mixed mode)
> 
> trace:
> java.lang.InternalError: URLSeedGenerator file:/dev/random generated
> exception: null
>          at
>          sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator$URLSeedGenerator.getSeed
>          Byte(SeedGenerator.java:469) at
>          sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator.getSeedBytes(SeedGenerat
>          or.java:137) at
>          sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator.generateSeed(SeedGenerat
>          or.java:132) at
>          sun.security.provider.SecureRandom.engineGenerateSeed(Secure
>          Random.java:112) at
>          sun.security.provider.SecureRandom.engineNextBytes(SecureRan
>          dom.java:169) at
>          java.security.SecureRandom.nextBytes(SecureRandom.java:381)
>          at java.security.SecureRandom.next(SecureRandom.java:403) at
>          java.util.Random.nextInt(Random.java:191)
> 
> It's FreeBSD 4.9-RC #12: Fri Oct  3 23:00:12 CEST 2003
> 
> 
> -- 
> Marcin Gryszkalis
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