blocking entropy device, serial console?

From: Don Bowman (don_at_sandvine.com)
Date: 05/29/04

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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 00:46:38 -0400

    I must confess i find this kind of humourous...
    I'd just booted the system, in single user mode.
    I have just a serial console.

    This message popped out when i tried to run vi /etc/fstab:
    Entropy device is blocking. Dance fandango on keyboard to unblock.

    catch is, i'm stuck now... the vi process is blocked
    (load: 0.28 cmd: vi 167 [block] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 1256k)
    i can't ^C or anything.
    suggestions on what this might be?
    is this normal? I've never seen this before?

    I tried hitting keys on the serial for a while, but nothing
    happened.

    --don
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