fatal: PRNG initialisation failed

[William L. Jones]

How many good cmds are their in the ssh_prng_cmds.   If you don't have at least
16 source you need at least 16.   Look at /usr/local/etc/ssh_prng_cmds and 
count
how many cmds are not undefined.

You may have to add more sun specific  commands to ssh_prng_cmds.in.


At 05:58 PM 1/8/01 +0000, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote:
>Heya,
>
>I have compiled and installed OpenSSH on a Solaris/Sparc machine and
>whenever I try to start any of the ssh programs I get
>"fatal: PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting"
>
>Now, I have looked through the mailing lists and have seen some mention
>that this indicates it can't open the ssh_prng_cmds file, which
>entropy.c also seems to indicate the problem is. However, this snippet
>from truss would indicate it opened it fine and started reading it:
>
>open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_prng_cmds", O_RDONLY)  = 3
>brk(0x000E6DB8)                                 = 0
>brk(0x000E8DB8)                                 = 0
>fstat64(3, 0xFFBEECD8)                          = 0
>brk(0x000E8DB8)                                 = 0
>brk(0x000EADB8)                                 = 0
>ioctl(3, TCGETA, 0xFFBEEC64)                    Err#25 ENOTTY
>read(3, " #   e n t r o p y   g a".., 8192)     = 1517
>read(3, 0x000E79CC, 8192)                       = 0
>fstat(-1, 0xFFBEEDE8)                           Err#9 EBADF
>fstat(-1, 0xFFBEE1B8)                           Err#9 EBADF
>
>Not sure that those last EBADF from fstat are referring to.. I'm not
>that good with truss..
>
>Anyone know what the problem is? Or where I can start looking to solve
>it?
>
>Could you reply to me as I'm not on the list..
>
>Cheers guys!
>
>  -- joe.