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

[Jan Owoc]

Hi Bryan,

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bryan N Iotti
<ironsides.medvet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

There is an open bug report about this:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/995

>From what I understand in the bug report, /dev/random works when the
system is up, but there is a race condition during boot causing the
message to appear (but only on some machines, and not consistently).

Jan