If I run 'cat /dev/urandom' in the agetty terminal it totally corrupts it and all characters become unreadable. Works fine if I do so through a remote SSH login. Note: same thing on both amd64 and x86. Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r 0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2. 00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:30:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc noinfo noman sandbox sfpe rms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/d istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym al sa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugi ns_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_ plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_ meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_p cm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_sh are alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol cracklib elibc_glibc input_dev ices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux nptl nptlonly pam ssl tcpd unicode userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_a ti video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy vide o_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mg a video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video _cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis vide o_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_ tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_car ds_vmware video_cards_voodoo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGU AS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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