I don't see anything about this on the pacman page
]]>IM far less than humble opinion, that's what should go in the wiki. Keep in mind that many people come to Arch because they are tired of overly GUI oriented distributions.
]]>I found that starting the key generation process and then switching over to the browser and moderating the forums for a while generates more than enough entropy
All that on a headless server huh .
]]>Same problem here on an ARM box. I'd like to install rng-tools but pacman says no such target
I have no big files on this server, so I try to generate some IO but still no luck. Any other idea to solve this problem?
EDIT: I just haven't wait enough
]]>I found that starting the key generation process and then switching over to the browser and moderating the forums for a while generates more than enough rage!!!
IO worked for me (like derloy suggested) on my headless box. In another SSH session, I went into a directory with a lot of large video files, and:
cat * > /dev/null
Took a few minutes but did the trick.
I tried this... after catting 10 G of video files, the operation in the 2nd ssh window hasn't moved at all.
Window 1:
$ sudo pacman-key --init
gpg: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key...
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 277 more bytes)
Window 2:
$ for i in $(ls); do cat "$i" >/dev/null; done
Now, when I repeat using the the instructions I posted to the pacman wiki page, this happens nearly instantaneously:
$ sudo pacman-key --init
gpg: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key...
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 277 more bytes)
+++++
.+++++
gpg: key 4D863ABB marked as ultimately trusted
gpg: Done
==> Updating trust database...
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
cat * > /dev/null
Took a few minutes but did the trick.
]]>Please read the first post ... he specifically states that this is a headless box.
Sorry for that, my english is not that good, so I missunderstood the post.
]]>edit: Thanks Graysky
]]>Open some applications, move some windows around, resizing etc. Then entropy goes up.
Please read the first post ... he specifically states that this is a headless box.
]]>]]>Open some applications, move some windows around, resizing etc. Then entropy goes up.