SSH not starting, PRNG is not seeded

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I’m on ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS, enabled for ESM (Extended Security Maintenance).

I upgraded packages yesterday, and since then, ssh.service is not starting anymore. Error is “PRNG is not seeded”.

I do have /dev/random and /dev/urandom and they do generate random numbers.

I also installed haveged for larger entropy. I checked cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail, and I get values over 2000.

In my home directory, .rnd is present, and it has a size of 1024 bytes.

I made the update through the ssh terminal, so it worked before. After that though, the ssh.service did not start anymore and I can access only through the browser recovery console.

Any ideas what else should I do to have ssh again?

KFSys · Answer

Hi @ovim , I’m just going to throw some random fixers for such issues and let me know if you’ve tried them or if not, will you try them. So first, as you’ve mentioned let’s see the /dev/random and /dev/urandom part. Check permissions on random numbers generators, the “others” must have “read” access to these devices: # ls -l /dev/random /dev/urandom crw-r--r-- 1 root system 39, 0 Dec 28 10:48 /dev/random crw-r--r-- 1 root system 39, 1 Dec 28 10:48 /dev/urandom If the permissions are different, you can change them as follows: chmod o+r /dev/random /dev/urandom Then restart your SSHD service stopsrc -s sshd startsrc -s sshd If you are still getting the same issue, try removing urandom and random and creating them again. stopsrc -s sshd rm -rf /dev/random rm -rf /dev/urandom mknod /dev/random c 39 0 mknod /dev/urandom c 39 1 randomctl -l ls -lad /dev/random /dev/urandom startsrc -s sshd

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