Bug 1166980 - F21Beta: rngd.service fails on AMD Processor Family 21
Summary: F21Beta: rngd.service fails on AMD Processor Family 21
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rng-utils
Version: 21
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-22 09:59 UTC by bob
Modified: 2015-12-02 16:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-12-02 05:10:04 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description bob 2014-11-22 09:59:38 UTC
Description of problem:

rngd.service fails on AMD Processor Family 21 and issues 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rng-tools.x86_64                                         5-3.fc21   

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot f21 beta on an AMD FX-8350 box.
2.
3.

Actual results:

service fails to start, logs ugly errors unnecessarily

Expected results:

quiet behavior when the daemon fails to start on hardware that does not support it, hardware upon which it is not supposed to start.

Additional info:

Comment 1 bob 2014-11-22 10:05:33 UTC
# systemctl --failed
  UNIT           LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION
● mcelog.service loaded failed failed Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon
● rngd.service   loaded failed failed Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon

# systemctl status rngd.service
● rngd.service - Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rngd.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2014-11-22 03:57:46 CST; 4min 36s ago
  Process: 11724 ExecStart=/sbin/rngd -f (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 11724 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 22 03:57:46 ************ systemd[1]: Started Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon.
Nov 22 03:57:46 ************ rngd[11724]: Unable to open file: /dev/tpm0
Nov 22 03:57:46 ************ rngd[11724]: can't open any entropy source
Nov 22 03:57:46 ************ rngd[11724]: Maybe RNG device modules are not loaded
Nov 22 03:57:46 ************ systemd[1]: rngd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 22 03:57:46 ************ systemd[1]: Unit rngd.service entered failed state.
Nov 22 03:57:46 ************ systemd[1]: rngd.service failed.

# systemctl start rngd.service
# systemctl status rngd.service
● rngd.service - Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rngd.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2014-11-22 04:03:54 CST; 5s ago
  Process: 11945 ExecStart=/sbin/rngd -f (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 11945 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 22 04:03:54 ************** systemd[1]: Started Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon.
Nov 22 04:03:54 ************** systemd[1]: rngd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 22 04:03:54 ************** systemd[1]: Unit rngd.service entered failed state.
Nov 22 04:03:54 ************** systemd[1]: rngd.service failed.
Nov 22 04:03:54 ************** rngd[11945]: Unable to open file: /dev/tpm0
Nov 22 04:03:54 ************** rngd[11945]: can't open any entropy source
Nov 22 04:03:54 ************** rngd[11945]: Maybe RNG device modules are not loaded

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