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setting up VPN on Ubuntu 16.04 build-ca error message

June 3, 2017 280 views
VPN Ubuntu 16.04

Running Ubuntu 16.04 on a HP Pavilion laptop
In following your tutorial "How to set Up an OpenVPN server on Ububtu 16.04" I got to step 4 "Build the Certificate Authority" and when I ran the ./build-ca command I got the following output:

Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
........................................................+++
......+++
unable to write 'random state'

writing new private key to 'ca.key'

As you can see it is telling me it can not write the random state. I want to know if I can ignore this message and continue or what I might try to fix it.

Any and all help is appreciated.

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  • raygolost June 3, 2017

    sorry I tried to bold the line "unable to write 'random state'" but it did it to the following line. I am new to this site.

  • raygolost June 3, 2017

    While I wait for an answer I decided to try to continue.
    Upon running the ./build-key-server server I go the same message on the last line of the output:

    1 out of 1 certificate requests certified, commit? [y/n]y
    Write out database with 1 new entries
    Data Base Updated
    unable to write 'random state'

    Any and all help is appreciated.

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hansen June 3, 2017
Accepted Answer

Hi @raygolost

It's usually because your .rnd is not owned by the user. You can remove it:

sudo rm ~/.rnd

You can read more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/94445/using-openssl-what-does-unable-to-write-random-state-mean

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