Bug 552172

Summary:	net-misc/openssh-6.8_p1 fails to configure due to missing random number support
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Component:	Prefix Support	Assignee:	Gentoo Prefix <prefix>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Solaris
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2015-06-15 07:31:31 UTC

checking for arc4random_uniform... no
checking for ia_openinfo in -liaf... no
checking whether OpenSSL's PRNG is internally seeded... no
checking for PRNGD/EGD socket... not found
configure: error: OpenSSH has no source of random numbers. Please configure OpenSSL with an entropy source or re-run configure using one of the --with-prngd-port or --with-prngd-socket options

Comment 1 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2015-06-16 13:46:12 UTC

during bootstrap, seems to work fine on existing system

Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2015-06-17 20:09:34 UTC

reducing to 32-bits intel

Comment 3 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2019-06-18 13:33:52 UTC

haven't seen this in recent bootstraps