[pkg-fso-maint] Couldn't open random device

Lorenz Wenner lorenz at wenner.info
Tue Dec 13 08:36:52 UTC 2011


Hello folks,

i am experiencing a problem while running the install.sh-script on my GTA02. In stage apt it outputs

Setting up dropbear (2011.54-1) ...
Generating Dropbear RSA key. Please wait.
Will output 1024 bit rsa secret key to '/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key'
Generating key, this may take a while...
Exited: Couldn't open random device
dpkg: error processing dropbear (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dropbear
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

To me the problem seems to results from unreadable random device. But both /dev/random and /dev/urandom are readable.

uname -a

leeds to

Linux om-gta02 2.6.29-rc2 #1 PREEMPT Tue Jun 16 06:06:19 CEST 2009 armv4tl unknown unknown GNU/Linux

what am i missing? please give me a hint.

Or would i have to make readable he random device within the debian system being installed? how that?

kind regards
	Lorenz

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