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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#23605: /dev/urandom not seeded across reboots
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 16:41:01 -0400
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On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 02:26:23PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 02:05:35PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > Please find my latest patch attached. It seems to work for me!
> 
> I'm currently reconfiguring my GuixSD system with this patch to make
> sure bad things don't happen the first time the user halts and the seed
> file does not exist. Or something like that. Just to see what happens.

No problems. After reconfiguring, the service is started and there is a
zero-byte file at /var/lib/random-seed.