Hi, I get this error message and sshd dying intermittently since I upgraded one of my sarge xen domains to etch. It always happens in the middle of a prolonged dictionary attack on my sshd. My other sarge domains on the same hardware get the dictionary attacks and weather them fine though. I don't understand how it can be running out of random bytes when /dev/urandom is there and appears to be working. Last time this happened I ran sshd from the console like so: /usr/sbin/sshd -eD -o 'LogLevel VERBOSE' and got this: (snip thousands of similar lines) Failed password for invalid user random from 219.238.174.73 port 47185 ssh2 Received disconnect from 219.238.174.73: 11: Bye Bye Connection from 219.238.174.73 port 47333 Invalid user cacilia from 219.238.174.73 input_userauth_request: invalid user cacilia Failed password for invalid user cacilia from 219.238.174.73 port 47333 ssh2 Received disconnect from 219.238.174.73: 11: Bye Bye Connection from 219.238.174.73 port 47476 Couldn't obtain random bytes (error 604389476) ruminant:~# Any ideas? -- http://strugglers.net/wiki/Xen_hosting -- A Xen VPS hosting hobby Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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