cron'd entropy file errors

estrabd

estrabd

This morning I awoke to a slew of cron errors saying stuff like,

mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.5: No such file or directory /usr/libexec/save-entropy[63207]: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.4 is not a regular file, and therefore it will not be rotated. Entropy file harvesting is
+aborted.

The only major change I made recently was upgrade from 7.0 p6 to 7.1.

Any ideas?

I looked, and all the files in /var/db/entropy exist and are of size > 0.

TIY,
Brett
 
Are they all 2048 bytes, owned by operator:eek:perator, and do they all have 400 permission?

Code: 
drwx------   2 operator  operator   512 Jan  8 15:22 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 root      wheel      512 Jan  7 15:46 ..
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 15:22 saved-entropy.1
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 15:11 saved-entropy.2
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 15:00 saved-entropy.3
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:55 saved-entropy.4
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:44 saved-entropy.5
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:33 saved-entropy.6
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:22 saved-entropy.7
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:11 saved-entropy.8
 
DutchDaemon said:
Are they all 2048 bytes, owned by operator:eek:perator, and do they all have 400 permission?

Code: 
drwx------   2 operator  operator   512 Jan  8 15:22 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 root      wheel      512 Jan  7 15:46 ..
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 15:22 saved-entropy.1
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 15:11 saved-entropy.2
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 15:00 saved-entropy.3
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:55 saved-entropy.4
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:44 saved-entropy.5
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:33 saved-entropy.6
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:22 saved-entropy.7
-r--------   1 operator  operator  2048 Jan  8 14:11 saved-entropy.8
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YUP!...so what does this mean?

Thanks,
Brett
 
No idea. You could try clearing out that directory to see what happens. It shouldn't break anything.
 
richardpl said:
Next time enter single user mode before upgrading.
(better safe than sorry)
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Are you reasonable sure that this might have contributed to the problem?
 
DutchDaemon said:
No idea. You could try clearing out that directory to see what happens. It shouldn't break anything.
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Otay - done. I'll let you know what happens :).
 
If you see saved-entropy.1 appearing within 11 minutes, it should be ok.
 
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