Irix: PRNG initialization failed

Jan-Frode Myklebust janfrode at parallab.uib.no
Thu Sep 28 17:58:53 EST 2000


On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:46:53AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I tried OpenSSH versions 2.1.1p4, 2.2.0p1 and the latest snapshot briefly
> on 64-bit Irix 6.5.7f an 6.5.9m.
> 
> Both times, no matter what I do, I'll get 'PRNG initialization failed
> -- exiting'.  This happens with ssh-keygen (the keys aren't even generated
> yet, ssh binary etc.)
> 


I've had some minor problems with netstat timing out when used for PRNG on
IRIX, so I just commented the netstat lines out from etc/ssh_prng_cmds. 
Works much better now.


   -jf





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