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

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:17:51PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it is strange (and wrong).  But the bug doesn't lie with slapd;
something else broke your /dev/urandom.

Closing this bug, since I have no idea where to reassign it.  Feel free to
reopen / reassign if you can figure out which package broke your device.

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