GNU bug report logs - #23605
/dev/urandom not seeded across reboots

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 17:59:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23605: /dev/urandom not seeded across reboots
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 16:41:01 -0400

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 02:26:23PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 02:05:35PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > Please find my latest patch attached. It seems to work for me!
> 
> I'm currently reconfiguring my GuixSD system with this patch to make
> sure bad things don't happen the first time the user halts and the seed
> file does not exist. Or something like that. Just to see what happens.

No problems. After reconfiguring, the service is started and there is a
zero-byte file at /var/lib/random-seed.
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