[Bug 1149] Does not build on QNX

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Thu Feb 9 16:42:00 EST 2006


http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149





------- Comment #13 from tim at multitalents.net  2006-02-09 16:41 -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> When I start sshd during the boot process, it prints the following message and
> exits:
> 
> > PRNG is not seeded
> 
> Here's the relevant excerpt from config.log:
> 
> > configure:15440: checking whether OpenSSL's PRNG is internally seeded
> > configure:15465: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Wsign-compare -I/usr/local/ssl/include  -L/usr/local/ssl/lib  conftest.c -lcrypto -lz -lsocket  >&5
> > configure:15468: $? = 0
> > configure:15470: ./conftest
> > configure:15473: $? = 0
> > configure:15477: result: yes
> 

If your OpenSSL is internally seeded but you are seeing "PRNG is not seeded"
on boot, I can only guess that there is not enough random data on boot.
What is the source of random data on QNX?
If you are running prngd, is it starting well before sshd?

> Adding
> 
>  with_rand_helper=yes
> to the nto-qnx case fixes this problem.
That will not be going into configure.ac.




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