Re: firefox2-2.0beta2 "where has my entropy gone"

To: Mark Davies <mark%mcs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>
Subject: Re: firefox2-2.0beta2 "where has my entropy gone"
From: David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:14:52 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Mark Davies wrote:

On Thursday 07 September 2006 20:07, David Brownlee wrote:

        Has anyone else noticed firefox2-2.0beta2 blocking on /dev/random
        for quite some time on startup? Its got to the point where I run
        I 'fsck -fn' to get enough entropy in the pool to start it...


Do you have the libgcrypt-1.2.3 package installed?  It broke firefox-1.5.0.6
for me in the way you describe because it used /dev/random instead
of /dev/urandom.  libgcrypt-1.2.3nb1 fixes this.


        Perfick - my firefox is once more a (relatively) fast starter...
        Thanks!
--
                David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --

References:
- firefox2-2.0beta2 "where has my entropy gone"
  - From: David Brownlee
- Re: firefox2-2.0beta2 "where has my entropy gone"
  - From: Mark Davies

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