rng-tools rawhide alert

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Jun 10 15:20:30 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:21:22 +0200,
   Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Just a warning for those like me that had activated rngd in the hope
>Fedora could someday make some use of the tpm sucking electricity on their
>mobo. In rawhide, instead of barfing a few error messages at boot
>complaining about tpm init errors, kernel/systemd/udev/whatever loops on
>the error message. As a result your /var/log partition will fill up faster
>than you can blink. (and if your logs are on / lots of innocent bystanders
>will be harmed)

I don't seem to be having any trouble with it on a machine that was rebooted 
4 days ago. Though also my hardware rng isn't a tpm. Did this start very 
recently?


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