[ubuntu-uk] GPG grrrs!
Kirrus
kirrus at kirrus.co.uk
Wed Dec 19 21:50:00 GMT 2007
----- "James Westby" <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> On (19/12/07 15:20), Michael Holloway wrote:
> > Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to
> give
> > the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 288 more bytes)
>
> Only certain sorts of "work" generate entropy, depending on the
> drivers
> that you have attached to certain devices. I would guess that you
> were
> not doing anything that caused those drivers on your server to do any
> work, or even that there is nothing on your server that will generate
> entropy.
>
I find running a system stress test works a charm for generating entropy.
Program called "stress" in the repos.
Johnathon
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