[oe] Fail to start dropbear

axel lin axel.lin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 09:40:38 UTC 2006


Thank you, Jamie.
I found the root cause of missing /dev/(u)random issue.
It is caused by missing "tmpfs" support in my kernel, as a result the
udev doesn't work.

Regards,
Axel


2006/10/19, Jamie Lenehan <lenehan at twibble.org>:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:22:41PM +0800, "axel lin" wrote:
> [...]
> > Thanks, Marcin.
> > I fixed it by manually create the device file.
> > How to config OE to add a device file, then I don't have to manually add it.
>
> If you are using udev then udev should be creating /dev/random and
> /dev/urandom (along with lots of other stuff). I don't think anything
> special is required to get udev to created this.
>
> If you really do want to add device nodes manually (which is probably wrong)
> then see the "Device (/dev) nodes" section of the "image_ipkg class"
> in the user manual:
>
>   http://www.openembedded.org/user-manual&dpage=ch07s05
>
> --
>  Jamie Lenehan <lenehan at twibble.org>
>




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