[Opendnssec-user] SoftHSM is blocking

[Mattias Andersson]

Looking at:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man5/proc.5.html

//proc/kmsg/
              This file can be used instead of the syslog(2) <http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/syslog.2.html> system call to read
              kernel messages.  A process must have superuser privileges to read this
              file, and only one process should read this file.  This file should not
              be read if a syslog process is running which uses the syslog(2) <http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/syslog.2.html> system
              call facility to log kernel messages.

              Information in this file is retrieved with the *dmesg*(8) program.

Interpreting this I guess one could expect behaviors as the ones 
observed trying to read from /proc/kmsg, even thou I have seen it 
working fine in some systems.
If you read this info for entropy I would recommend not read this file 
or access the content via dmesg instead.

Regards
/Mattias


Rickard Bondesson skrev:
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>> I was able to compile all parts of OpenDNSSEC on Ubuntu Linux 9.04.
>>
>> then, when I try to initialize the SoftHSM token with
>> softhsm --init-token --slot 0 --label "OpenDNSSEC"
>>
>> I can enter the SO PIN and user PIN, but then the softhsm 
>> process "hangs". I have compiled OpenDNSSEC with loglevel=4 
>> and see the following log messages from SoftHSM:
>>
>> Aug  2 19:11:58 csmobile2 softhsm: SoftHSM: C_Initialize: Calling
>> Aug  2 19:11:58 csmobile2 softhsm: SoftHSM: C_Initialize: OK
>> Aug  2 19:12:01 csmobile2 softhsm: SoftHSM: C_InitToken: Calling
>> Aug  2 19:12:03 csmobile2 softhsm: SoftHSM: C_OpenSession: Calling
>>
>> Any ideas where I can look for the cause of this issue?
>>     
>
> We have also got a report from a user with Fedora 11 and a similar problem. Will have a look into this.
>
> There should also be a line saying: "SoftHSM: C_InitToken: OK", right?
>
> Could you run "strace softhsm --init-token --slot 0 --label 'OpenDNSSEC'" and give my the last page of lines before it hangs?
>
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