Bug #16315

rng-tools.service fails to load

Added by emmapeel 2019-01-07 10:54:08 . Updated 2020-02-11 16:29:20 .

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
emmapeel
Category:
Target version:
Start date:
2019-01-07
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Code
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
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Description

reported by user, confirmed by me.

Steps to reproduce:

- Start Tails

- Run systemctl status rng-tools.service
- Error:

● rng-tools.service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/rng-tools; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-01-03 07:38:33 UTC; 4 days 
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

- What should happen: service is running.

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History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2019-01-08 10:04:18

  • Assignee set to emmapeel
  • QA Check changed from Dev Needed to Info Needed

Please share the WhisperBack debugging info, with this ticket ID in the Subject. Thanks!

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2019-03-08 14:40:06

@emmapeel ping?

#3 Updated by emmapeel 2019-03-09 04:41:47

intrigeri wrote:
> @emmapeel ping?
sorry for delay. it is hard to find this ticket now, i will try to reproduce today and send you my log.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2019-06-02 15:14:20

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected
  • QA Check deleted (Info Needed)

Please reopen whenever you can provide the requested info. Thanks!

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2020-01-14 08:02:13

FTR, I’ve reproduced this (on bare metal) while testing 4.2.2. This suggests that config/chroot_local-patches/rngd-dont-fail-if-no-hardware-rng-device.diff is not always sufficient. I’ve added set -x to the initscript and it turns out that the finddevice function finds /dev/hwrng, which indeed exists, but then starting rngd with -r /dev/hwrng fails. I don’t think it’s worth spending more time on this, so I’ll add this as an error that’s safe to ignore in our manual test suite.

#6 Updated by goupille 2020-02-11 16:29:20

an anonymous user reported this issue : Bug report: 2d11dfad2b78fc2039c073008933d262 (no logs)