On Jun 4, 3:08 pm, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > Well, I have seens the same problem on other Solaris boxen and we do
> > not explicitly just /dev/random, but we do so via GNUTLS. We might
> > patch GNUTLS slightly on Solaris, but up to know it isn't 100% clear
> > to my why this happens.
Hi,
> Yeah, patching the random number generation of the SSL package slightly ...
> what could go wrong ...
Yes, what could go wrong? ;)
Seriously: What I meant above is that we ought to see on Solaris only
if switching to /dev/urandom as an entropy source does fix the
infinite startup time of the notebook. I had similar problems with the
Sage notebook with the 64 bit OSX version initially due a non-compiled
_ctypes extension, but in that case it failed outright. I am well
aware of the dangers of hacking on the random source for anything, but
I promise that I will use more than PID to seed ;)
> Martin
Cheers,
Michael
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