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May 22nd, 2012

Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected

Linux, by Joakim Ling.

PCRE documentationHad a problem with a cloud server a while ago with updating subversion. This is a kernel error and I found out that its the random pool thats not working correctly. Here is a simple way how to recreate it.

Error

# svn up
Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected
Aborted

To fix the random pool you can recreate /dev/{random,urandom}

Solution

This is intructions I found on the Debian installation WIKI and it worked great for me

# chmod 777 /dev/urandom
# ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
# svn cleanup
# svn up

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