[OpenIndiana-discuss] no randomness provider for /dev/random?

[Bryan N Iotti]

Hi all,

I finally gave in to the brewing discontent with the Mac platform and 
made the jump.

I am writing this from an HP xw8200 running OI 151a.

The machine has dual Xeon 3.6Ghz processors, 4GB ECC RAM and 2x 146GB 
SCSI 320 disks (don't remember specs on these). The video card is an 
NVidia Quadro FX3450 and the motherboard is an LSI Logic (gotta look up 
the model no.).

I installed OI and mirrored rpool on the second disk, installed grub and 
my selection of software.
I am very pleased with the performance of it all, but I am puzzled to 
see that every time it boots it posts that there is no randomness 
provider for /dev/random. cryptoadm lists a series of providers and I 
found a post online about that being just a question of ZFS needing 
/dev/random, but the provider is loaded a little later in the boot sequence.

Is that so, or can I do something about it?
What do you think about the machine? Are there any "necessary" upgrades 
I need to make?

Also, on a minor note, it's giving me grief ejecting CDs. I have 
properly jumpered the dual IDE burners, but they still have a hard time 
opening without a disk inside. Any clues on that one?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Bryan