On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:50:08AM +0100, Jonathan David Amery wrote: > Sorry if I'm saying something obvious, but... > > Being rather irritated by this bug, I thought I'd investigate it a bit > further on ysolde (my ARM machine). Seems that xdm is reading > /dev/mem because of it's DisplayManager.randomFile setting: > > # DisplayManager.randomFile > # A file to checksum to generate the seed of autho > # rization keys. This should be a file that changes > # frequently. The default is /dev/mem. > > This appears to be assuming a semantic for /dev/mem that I believe is > not guarrenteed. > > Changing the value of this setting provides a successful workaround. <Keanu>Whoa.</Keanu> I'll have to check this out. I'm real-work incapacitated at LinuxWorld right now, but I'll check this out. If you've found the problem, you rock. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He branden@debian.org | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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