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    • JonathanLeeJ
      JonathanLee
      last edited by JonathanLee

      arc4random: WARNING: initial seeding bypassed the cryptographic random device because it was not yet seeded and the knob 'bypass_before_seeding' was enabled.
      

      Hello fellow Netgate community members,

      Does anyone know how to make this OS boot up error go away on a SG-2100MAX?
      Screenshot_20231101-002607.png
      (Image of error during start up or reboot)

      https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14106

      I don't know if this bug is related however FreeBSD closed it as fixed. It is still occurring on PfSense for me. . .

      https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237869

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        It's not an error it's a warning and it's expected on the 2100.
        I'm not aware of any way to suppress it but let me see...

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        • JonathanLeeJ
          JonathanLee @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 did you ever find any info on this?

          Make sure to upvote

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Ah, yes! Looks like you can set kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings=1 in loader.conf.local

            But that's still just a warning, there's no need to suppress it. Unless you really want to 😉

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            • JonathanLeeJ
              JonathanLee @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 thanks

              Make sure to upvote

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              • JonathanLeeJ
                JonathanLee @stephenw10
                last edited by JonathanLee

                @stephenw10 just tested that worked great. Error suppressed now.

                IMG_1759.png

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