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but I haven't another Linux system to compare this too so I'm not sure which RPM package provides the above /var/lib/random-seed (it's missing on my system) or if something else is broken if it's not a missing RPM.
Any help would be appreciated. This is RHEL / CentOS compatible linux 6.6 (Scientific Linux).
Google /var/lib/random-seed and you find that it is a file to which the random seeds are stored.
You might want to check if you have the file and otherwise just touch it and see it that works.
Google /var/lib/random-seed and you find that it is a file to which the random seeds are stored.
You might want to check if you have the file and otherwise just touch it and see it that works.
Tried with 0 byte and 512 then 1024. App now freezes instead of printing that message. I'll try this again later. I'll try a copy from another system as well.
Thanks hoes! That one wasn't found either on this 6.7 Scientific Linux. I think I'll leave figuring this out as I've other items I need to resolve first of higher priority and this file might reappear with one of the updates.
Ok I just wanted it more then not. So I recreate it in this manner:
Quote:
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]#
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]# ls -altri /var/lib/systemd/random-seed
ls: cannot access /var/lib/systemd/random-seed: No such file or directory
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]# ls -altri /var/lib/random-seed
ls: cannot access /var/lib/random-seed: No such file or directory
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/random-seed bs=1024 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.000944831 s, 1.1 MB/s
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]# ls -altri /var/lib/random-seed
135115 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1024 Feb 14 12:28 /var/lib/random-seed
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/systemd/random-seed bs=1024 count=1
dd: opening `/var/lib/systemd/random-seed': No such file or directory
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]#
However when I try to start kdump this is what I get and it doesn't even begin to create the file it says it's creating:
Quote:
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]# service kdump start
No kdump initial ramdisk found. [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.scst.x86_64kdump.img
DEVYN: /sbin/mkdumprd -d -f /boot/initrd-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.scst.x86_64kdump.img 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.scst.x86_64 ...
Ok never mind. Seems to be ok now, just took a few minutes:
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]# service kdump start
No kdump initial ramdisk found. [WARNING]
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.scst.x86_64kdump.img
DEVYN: /sbin/mkdumprd -d -f /boot/initrd-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.scst.x86_64kdump.img 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.scst.x86_64 ...
Warning: There might not be enough space to save a vmcore.
The size of UUID=af6c5c11-6f1c-4735-8a7b-9869613de495 should be greater than 3526912 kilo bytes.
Starting kdump: [ OK ]
[root@mbpc-pc qla2464-firmware]#
Thank you guy's for helping out on this thread. Much appreciated!
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