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PRNG is not seeded on Xen a rare problem with xen-tools, where the /dev/urandom device isn’t
created for some reason. Here’s what I did:

dell:~# /usr/sbin/sshd -t
PRNG is not seeded
dell:~# ls -1 /dev
MAKEDEV
console
initctl
log
mapper
md1
null
ptmx
pts
ram0
ram1
ram10
ram11
ram12
ram13
ram14
ram15
ram2
ram3
ram4
ram5
ram6
ram7
ram8
ram9
root
rtc
sda1
sda2
shm
systty
tty
tty0
tty1
tty10
tty11
tty12
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
ttyS0
ttyS1
ttyS2
ttyS3
xconsole
zero
dell:~# cd /dev/
dell:/dev# ./MAKEDEV generic
dell:/dev# ls -la | grep urandom
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 Jun 25 00:57 urandom
dell:/dev# /etc/init.d/ssh start
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
dell:/dev#