fatal: PRNG initialisation failed

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, 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:

Doing a "ssh -v -v -v" is the best way to debug PRNG failures, it turns
on a lot of additional debugging.

-d

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