fatal: PRNG initialisation failed

[Joe Warren-Meeks]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:27:44PM -0600, William L. Jones scribed:

Heya,

> 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.

There are at least 19 valid ones in there.. is that enough?

Cheers!

 -- joe.
 
> 
> 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.
>