From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: During boot of FC3t2 ( just press ENTER in boot menu ) from CD, this message appears: get_random_bytes called before random device initialization There seems to be no ill effect, everything goes on nicely. Maybe this email helps in resolving : http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.0/0232.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.541 BOOT How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Additional info:
fixed in updates ?
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.