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#1 Out of entropy? Posted by grifferz (82.44.xx.xx) on Wed 15 Feb 2006 at 13:31 Let me guess, are you running this in a Xen domain? I have a related issue of my own around entropy. One of my Xen domains based on etch occasionally has its sshd die. Last time I ran it foreground in debug mode to try and figure out why and I see a fatal error regarding not enough entropy in /dev/random. Digging about a bit I see that /dev/random gets entropy from mouse, keyboard, display, audio and the disk subsystem. I think that since a Xen domain has no disk subsystem it may not get anything from there. It also has none of the other devices, so I can see why it might run low. None of my other domains do this, but they are all sarge. Sure enough, etch has a much more up to date openssh. Something may have changed in openssh to make it more paranoid about entropy. I would be interested in any possible solutions for this that do not involve installing a non-Debian package or recompiling a debian package. egd doesn't appear to be packaged for debian and even if it was I think openssh would need to be recompiled to use it. Andy

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