On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Alper Kanat <tunix@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > --- > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > Have you tried just moving your mouse around?
