Re: [GNUnet-developers] Missing /dev/*random

[Christian Grothoff]

On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:57 pm, N. Durner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if /dev/*random is missing (because the devs were created using an old
> MAKEDEV), the GNUnet-log isn't very helpful ("FATAL: could not create
> hostkey").
> The attached patch adds an additional message to hostkey.c, that gives a
> hint what might be wrong and how to solve the problem under Linux.

Well, /dev/random missing may not be the only cause. I've commited a patch 
that will query OpenSSL for the actual error.

Index: src/util/hostkey.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/GNUnet/GNUnet/src/util/hostkey.c,v
retrieving revision 1.97
diff -r1.97 hostkey.c
62c62,67
<   return RSA_generate_key(HOSTKEY_LEN, 65535, NULL, 0);
---
>   HOSTKEY hk = RSA_generate_key(HOSTKEY_LEN, 65535, NULL, 0);
>   if (hk == NULL)
>     LOG(LOG_ERROR,
>       "ERROR: RSA_generate_key failed: %s\n",
>       ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(), NULL));
>   return hk;

Thanks for pointing out the problem.

Christian