Hello,

I'm running Slackware 9.0 as a Nat box and we lost power one night, when it came back I booted up my Nat box again and right after loading both nic drivers it says

"using /etc/random-seed to initialize /dev/urandom"

It pauses for about 30 seconds then says

vs-3050: wait_buffer_until_released: nobody releases buffer (dev (03:02, size 4096, blocknr 30722, count2, list 0, state 0x10019, page c10437a8, (uptodate, clean, unblocked)). Still Waiting (210000000) JDIRyY !JWAIT

A google search turned up nothing, anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

It won't help you much, but maybe you can
ask the guys at namesys ... a quick grep on
/usr/src/linux revealed buffer2.c in fs/reiserfs
as the originator of that message... if you're
sure that the problem is with /dev/urandom,
you might want to look through the slackware
installation packages to check which one (and
how it does it) sets /dev/urandom up.

Cheers,
Tink

Ok, thanks for the help!

I really don't know what it is that is causing it. I'm guessing that since I can't get to a prompt at all that I will have to boot off a boot disk to fix it. I just don't know what file(s) to replace/fix/delete.

alan@redtail:/etc/rc.d$ grep urandom *
rc.0:echo "Saving random seed from /dev/urandom in /etc/random-seed."
rc.0:dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/random-seed count=1 bs=512 2> /dev/null
rc.6:echo "Saving random seed from /dev/urandom in /etc/random-seed."
rc.6:dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/random-seed count=1 bs=512 2> /dev/null
rc.S: echo "Using /etc/random-seed to initialize /dev/urandom."
rc.S: cat /etc/random-seed >/dev/urandom
rc.S:dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/random-seed count=1 bs=512 2> /dev/null
grep: rc.news: Permission denied
grep: rc.samba: Permission denied

Looks to me like you've got some problem with your file system and that file. One boot-up, Slackware executes the following command:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/random-seed count=1 bs=512 2> /dev/null

That sets up that file. Then at shutdown it does the same thing. It's possible, especially if this NAT ox was on a UPS, that it lost power while trying to do this, and that is causing your problem. My reccomendation?

Boot-up off the slackware live cd and rescue disk, mount your reiserfs partition, and try to dd that byte count to your "${MOUNT_PATH}"/etc/random-seed file. If that doesn't work, get back to us. You may also try alt.os.linux.slackware for help.