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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:25:42PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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.

As with most of your bug reports, I can't reproduce this.
Do you have the openssl package installed?  /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
contains:
RANDFILE                = $ENV::HOME/.rnd


Kurt