3518 2012-11-30 09:42:44 +0000 /etc/init.d/urandom service fails to start and stop 2013-02-27 11:07:50 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 1.4 x86 Multiple VERIFIED FIXED Medium normal 1.4 1 ming.liu ming.liu corneliux.stoicescu meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher sgw song.liu zhenfeng.zhao --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 27847 0 ming.liu 2012-11-30 09:42:44 +0000 Build a core-image-minimal, deploy it in qemu, failed information as follow: $ /etc/init.d/urandom start urandom start: failed. $ /etc/init.d/urandom stop urandom stop: failed. This issue arises because "/etc/init.d/urandom" script wanna save random-seed into /var/lib/urandom folder which does not exist in the file system. There are two ways fixing it: 1) use a available directory instead of /var/lib/urandom, like: /var/lib/misc (as SUSE does) /var/lib (as Redhat/Fedora does) 2) add /var/lib/urandom into initscript meta's exported list. (similar to Ubuntu) I personally prefer to method 1. 27892 1 corneliux.stoicescu 2012-12-03 11:46:15 +0000 Can you please specify the branch/commit on which you tested this on? Thank you :) 27918 2 sgw 2012-12-03 22:14:06 +0000 As was mentioned in an email reply to this, it could also be added to the initscripts populate-volatile, I think that keeping it in /var/lib/urandom more closely matches the /usr/lib/<package> approach. 27932 3 ming.liu 2012-12-04 01:44:58 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > Can you please specify the branch/commit on which you tested this on? Thank > you :) I tested it on commit 99f003356be43bb361634359a5d3c520f72f0a08 of master. :) 27934 4 ming.liu 2012-12-04 05:14:17 +0000 (In reply to comment #2) > As was mentioned in an email reply to this, it could also be added to the > initscripts populate-volatile, I think that keeping it in /var/lib/urandom > more closely matches the /usr/lib/<package> approach. Yes, I am on board. It seems a more reasonable solution. 29381 5 ming.liu 2013-01-31 08:51:38 +0000 Merged into master: http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=42e37058e06c76c6782d5371d4a60d260f00fa20 30116 6 corneliux.stoicescu 2013-02-26 12:21:45 +0000 Tested in master:7d22ef28e64de06b6238d0ef9b664c0bee6efa46 /etc/init.d/urandom does not work: root@jasperforest:~# /etc/init.d/urandom root@jasperforest:~# /etc/init.d/urandom start root@jasperforest:~# ps aux | grep urandom root 813 0.0 0.0 4432 616 pts/0 S+ 08:19 0:00 grep urandom root@jasperforest:~# /etc/init.d/urandom start root@jasperforest:~# /etc/init.d/urandom stop root@jasperforest:~# /etc/init.d/urandom stop root@jasperforest:~# 30157 7 ming.liu 2013-02-27 01:49:44 +0000 hi, corneliux: Do you mean there should be a daemon while /etc/init.d/urandom is started? But it's not supposed to be used like that, it's a single shot script, that attempting to get a random-seed from /dev/urandom when it's start/stop. 30162 8 corneliux.stoicescu 2013-02-27 11:06:55 +0000 Hello Ming, Indeed the script does not provide output. I tested urandom with the following scenario and it works: cat /dev/urandom I am sorry for my undocumented mistake. 30163 9 corneliux.stoicescu 2013-02-27 11:07:50 +0000 Verified in master:7d22ef28e64de06b6238d0ef9b664c0bee6efa46