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/dev/urandom not seeded across reboots

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Message #35 received at 23605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23605: /dev/urandom not seeded across reboots
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 12:47:07 -0400

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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 06:54:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 
> Yes, it’s:
> 
>   (service TYPE VALUE)
> 
> but I think there’s no meaningful value for this service, so you could
> do:
> 
>   (service urandom-seed-service-type #f)

I'm struggling to make this work. Do I need to alter the definition of
urandom-seed-shepherd-service to accept the boolean?

With the attached diff, building a VM fails like this (full backtrace
attached):

[...]
 573: 2 [loop #<<service> type: # parameters: ()>]
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
 578: 1 [map #<procedure 519cc20 at gnu/services.scm:562:4 (service)> (# # # # ...)]
In gnu/services/base.scm:
1217: 0 [urandom-seed-shepherd-service #f]

gnu/services/base.scm:1217:0: In procedure urandom-seed-shepherd-service:
gnu/services/base.scm:1217:0: Wrong number of arguments to #<procedure urandom-seed-shepherd-service ()>

> Sounds like you’re pretty much there!  :-)

Almost, I hope! Thanks for your help :)

[backtrace (text/plain, attachment)]

[urandom-seed-service.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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