Re: Questions on /dev/{u}random on qemu

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:46 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Mon 08 Nov 2010 22:37:44 +0100, a écrit :
> > On one (i686) box I have now an ssh server running, the random device
> > created by the postinst script of the random-egd package. However, on
> > another (amd64) box the installation fails.
> 
> What is the error message?

Setting up random-egd the postinst script fails, see below: 
random-egd.postinst:
showtrans /dev/random > /dev/null || settrans
-cp /dev/random /hurd/random /tmp/entropy.sock
showtrans /dev/urandom > /dev/null || settrans
-cp /dev/urandom /hurd/random -u /tmp/entropy.sock

seems to work, but trying to ls /dev/random gives the error translator
died! 
Doing an ls -l of /dev/ shows something like for random:
????-???-??? ? ?? ?? ?, ???? /dev/random

Trying to ls or chmod /dev/random gives the translator died message.

Installing the random file from the random-64 package copied
to /hurd/random with similar commands also fails, the created file is
not a character file, as above.

Svante