I start the cherrypy 3.2.0 server with Python 2.5.1, which every few days gives the following error from any command from the user interface until it is killed and restarted: -
[29/Mar/2012:06:37:57] HTTP Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 636, in respond
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 97, in run
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 57, in __call__
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 757, in init
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 162, in __init__
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 190, in _regenerate
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 204, in generate_id
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cpcompat.py", line 264, in random20
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 733, in urandom
NotImplementedError: /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found
_cpcompat.pyhas the following code snippet, which says that random.randomthere is a reserve in case the cherry cannot read /dev/urandom, but does not seem to return to it.
try:
os.urandom(20)
import binascii
def random20():
return binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(20)).decode('ascii')
except (AttributeError, NotImplementedError):
import random
def random20():
return sha('%s' % random.random()).hexdigest()
code>
The following is a snippet of code from os.pythat is relevant in context: -
if not _exists("urandom"):
def urandom(n):
"""urandom(n) -> str
Return a string of n random bytes suitable for cryptographic use.
"""
try:
_urandomfd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)
except (OSError, IOError):
raise NotImplementedError("/dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found")
bytes = ""
while len(bytes) < n:
bytes += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes))
close(_urandomfd)
return bytes
code> At the same time, when cherrypy cannot read /dev/urandom, the following code fragment works fine: -
python -c "import os;fd = open('/dev/urandom', 'r');print fd.read(5);fd.close()"
I have two questions: -
- Why does the worm throw an unrealized error when I can read random bits from / dev / urandom
_cpcompact.py , os.py NotImplementedError.