On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Alper Kanat <tunix@raptiye.org> wrote:
Hey There,
I have an Arch Linux box inside Virtualbox on a Mac that I use for development purposes. I connect to this machine via SSH without any visual interface. It's on [testing] and just upgraded to pacman 4.0 and after installation it asked me to run pacman-key --init to generate the necessary keys for my system. I did all of these inside GNU Screen (also tried without it without any luck):
$ sudo pacman-key --init gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key...
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)
I pressed random bits with the keyboard but it didn't work so I fired up another window inside screen and did cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null but that also didn't work. So I found this [1] article and tried it again without any luck.
So I'm basically stuck here. Can someone please help me? Since pacman is bricked, I can't also install anything. Now I have to manually downgrade pacman if I can't succeed.
Thanks!
[1] http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/22-01-2010/generate-entropy-gnupg
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