Problem with dropbear

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 27 14:21:12 UTC 2006


On Mon, 27 February, 2006 1:44 pm, Andrea Paterniani wrote:
> Hi all!
>
>     I have installed my distro on the target system PXA255 based.
> I build my system via buildroot using:
>   a.. buildroot-0.9.27 (patched to use different package versions)
>   b.. linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0
>   c.. binutils-2.15.91.0.2
>   d.. gcc-3.4.3
>   e.. uClibc-0.9.28
>   f.. busybox-1.1.0
>   g.. tinylogin-snaphshot
>   h.. dropbear-0.47
> Booting the system I got the following message, then the system hang:
>
>     ...
>     Generating RSA Key...
>     Will output 1024 bit rsa key tp '/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key'
>     Warning: Reading the random source seems to have blocked.
>     If you experience problems, you probably need to find a better entropy
> source.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
You can configure Dropbear to use a pseudo random source if you have a low
entropy system - go back and examine the options iirc it's in there




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