Bug#813599: systemd - systemd-random-seed.service fails to start in clean install

[Bastian Blank]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 03:04:39AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> For some reasons, this fails on your system. Any idea why? When exactly
> did you get this error?

Actually I found it in the meantime.  /, including /var, was read-only.

The resppnsible code reads:

| seed_fd = open(RANDOM_SEED, O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY|O_CREAT, 0600);
| if (seed_fd < 0) {
|         seed_fd = open(RANDOM_SEED, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY);

So it ignores the error given by the first call (EROFS), which would be
a clear indication, and only provides the useless second one.

Bastian

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