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+[[!meta title="During installation I get Failed to read random seed file"]]
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+More precisely, during the Debian installation, around the extraction of the netdde package one gets:
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+ /hurd/random: Warning: Failed to read random seed file /var/lib/random-seed: (system kern) error with unknown subsystem
+
+This is a harmless glitch.