From 6ecb0058a88a9135b6cc58903328fc81b51895de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:50:22 +0200 Subject: Document the harmless random seed reading error --- faq/random_seed_file.mdwn | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 faq/random_seed_file.mdwn (limited to 'faq') diff --git a/faq/random_seed_file.mdwn b/faq/random_seed_file.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7afe007e --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/random_seed_file.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag faq/support]] + +[[!meta title="During installation I get Failed to read random seed file"]] + +More precisely, during the Debian installation, around the extraction of the netdde package one gets: + + /hurd/random: Warning: Failed to read random seed file /var/lib/random-seed: (system kern) error with unknown subsystem + +This is a harmless glitch. -- cgit v1.2.3