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openSSH PRNG not seeded

This errror is usually seen when the random number generator is broken.

To fix this

Remove the random devices

rm -rf /dev/random && rm -rf /dev/urandom

now recreate both

mknod /dev/random c 1 8 &&  mknod /dev/random c 1 9

First check /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure

If you find something like this, “fatal: daemon() failed: No such device.” then here is the fix.

rm -rf /dev/null
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart