[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#531973: dies on startup: //.rnd not found

[martin f krafft]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8lenny2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Forwarded: https://support.ntp.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=649

The version in lenny fails to start during system boot with the
syslog message

  ntpd[2552]: crypto_setup: random seed file //.rnd not found

A workaround is to add

  crypto randfile /dev/urandom

to /etc/ntp.conf, but as the NTP bug report says, this should not be
necessary.

I don't know why this applies to 4.2.4, even though ntp#649 says
it's fixed in 4.2.2. ntp#897 says 4.2.5 though.

Curiously, once the system has booted, /etc/init.d/ntp start works
as expected.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                    2.9-13          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                  1:2.16-5        support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libedit2                 2.11~20080614-2 BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libncurses5              5.7+20090523-1  shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8              0.9.8k-1        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-22          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  netbase                  4.34            Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl                          5.10.0-22  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages ntp suggests:
ii  ntp-doc                 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1 Network Time Protocol documentatio

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