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fatal: PRNG is not seeded.

cggibbo Oct 21 2009 Comments (11) Visits (33389)

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The /dev/*random* devices were missing…….and I had to recreate them!

# tail /var/log/syslog

Oct 15 16:36:01 lpar1 auth|security:crit sshd[380976]: fatal: PRNG is not seeded

# odmget CuDvDr | grep -p random

CuDvDr:

resource = "ddins"

value1 = "random"

value2 = "32"

value3 = ""

# mknod /dev/random c 32 0

# mknod /dev/urandom c 32 1

# randomctl -l

# stopsrc -s sshd

# startsrc -s sshd

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Lee_FL commented May 24 2016 Comment Permalink

Thanks! Solved my problem as well. What causes this to happen? This may explain other issues I am having on this system.

nbf commented Apr 13 2016 Comment Permalink

Thanks! Solved my problema too. I wonder why this devices were missing?

UnixAdmin001 commented Nov 11 2015 Comment Permalink

It worked for me. Thanks for the tip.

pangsmitas commented May 8 2015 Comment Permalink

it worked for me too. any idea how this goes missing?

ybaumy commented Dec 6 2013 Comment Permalink

thanks for this. saved me alot of time.

Vishwa_777 commented July 23 2013 Comment Permalink

Not work for me getting below error. PTGBSSC1TEP01 # lssrc -s sshd Subsystem Group PID Status sshd ssh inoperative PTGBSSC1TEP01 # stopsrc -s sshd 0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, sshd, is currently inoperative. PTGBSSC1TEP01 # ls -l /dev/random /dev/urandom crw-r--r-- 1 root system 524, 0 23 Jul 11:31 /dev/random crw-r--r-- 1 root system 524, 1 23 Jul 11:32 /dev/urandom PTGBSSC1TEP01 # rm -rf /dev/random PTGBSSC1TEP01 # rm -rf /dev/urandom PTGBSSC1TEP01 # ls -l /dev/random /dev/urandom /dev/random not found /dev/urandom not found PTGBSSC1TEP01 # mknod /dev/random c 524 0 PTGBSSC1TEP01 # mknod /dev/urandom c 524 1 PTGBSSC1TEP01 # ls -l /dev/random /dev/urandom crw-r--r-- 1 root system 524, 0 23 Jul 12:14 /dev/random crw-r--r-- 1 root system 524, 1 23 Jul 12:14 /dev/urandom PTGBSSC1TEP01 # randomctl -l /usr/lib/drivers/random: Device busy PTGBSSC1TEP01 # startsrc -s sshd 0513-059 The sshd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 22478874. PTGBSSC1TEP01 # lssrc -s sshd Subsystem Group PID Status sshd ssh inoperative