[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#545859: Fatal: not entropy gathering module detected by /etc/init.d/slapd start

[Steffen Moeller]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.4.17-1
Severity: serious

Hello,

this worked a couple of weeks ago. I alread chmoded o+rw /dev/random, but this has not helped.

$ ls -l /dev/random
crw-rw-rw- 1 root dialout 1, 8  9. Sep 11:36 /dev/random
$ sudo /etc/init.d/slapd start
Starting OpenLDAP: slapd - failed:
Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected

My hunch was that with my update of the sysv-rc bits something is no longer detected/started that was started before.
Just while panicking around, /etc/init.d/urandom start does not make a difference, the problem was 

$ ls -l /dev/urandom
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 1, 9  9. Sep 18:13 /dev/urandom

A chmod o+rw /dev/urandom fixed the problem, i.e. slapd then started.

I don't know what the problem is here. Somehow the group "dialout" for /dev/urandom seems strange.

Cheers,

Steffen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages slapd depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.110            add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils               7.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.27           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.9-26           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.7                4.7.25-7         Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls26             2.8.3-2          the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.17-1         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libltdl7                2.2.6a-4         A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libperl5.10             5.10.0-25        Shared Perl library
ii  libsasl2-2              2.1.23.dfsg1-1.1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libslp1                 1.2.1-7.6        OpenSLP libraries
ii  libuuid1                2.16-3           Universally Unique ID library
ii  libwrap0                7.6.q-18         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  perl [libmime-base64-pe 5.10.0-25        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  psmisc                  22.8-1           utilities that use the proc file s
ii  unixodbc                2.2.11-20        ODBC tools libraries

Versions of packages slapd recommends:
ii  libsasl2-modules        2.1.23.dfsg1-1.1 Cyrus SASL - pluggable authenticat

Versions of packages slapd suggests:
ii  ldap-utils                    2.4.17-1   OpenLDAP utilities

-- debconf information:
  slapd/tlsciphersuite:
  shared/organization: nodomain
  slapd/upgrade_slapcat_failure:
  slapd/backend: HDB
  slapd/allow_ldap_v2: false
  slapd/no_configuration: false
  slapd/move_old_database: true
  slapd/suffix_change: false
  slapd/dump_database_destdir: /var/backups/slapd-VERSION
  slapd/domain: nodomain
  slapd/password_mismatch:
  slapd/invalid_config: true
  slapd/slurpd_obsolete:
  slapd/dump_database: when needed
  slapd/purge_database: false