Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 16:21, Danny Sauer wrote:
> Chadley wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] hw_random' on Wed, Sep 22 at 00:49:
> [...]
>
> > Sorry for the stupidity here, in the old school linux I just had to
> > rename the S to a K to stop it, That still applies right?
> > Thanks
>
> To stop it from running, just remove the symlink entirely.  The "S" links
> are run with "start" as an arg at startup, and the "K" links are run with
> "stop" as an arg on shutdown.  Replacing S with K would stop it from
> running at startup, but would make it run twice at shutdown, which isn't
> really a "good" solution... :)
>
> --Danny
Aha you've hit the magic button, however the symlink S and K for random are 
not the culprits in this case, the coldplug utility is the one that gives the 
error and attempts to modprobe the hw_random module, hence removing the 
S01random and K01random links did not solve the issue.

Anyway I have managed to solve it and have posted a fix for the problem, but 
maybe someone knows of a better way, after all I am still a newbie, and could 
be wrong.
But it worked for me. 
Anyway thanks for your help,
I do appreciate the input it gets the mind into the right gear, 

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Chadley Wilson
Production Line Supervisor
Pinnacle Micro
Manufacturers of Proline Computers
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