USN-2709-2: pollinate update

14 October 2015

The system would not have expected entropy available.

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Releases

Packages

  • pollinate - seed the pseudo random number generator in virtual machines

Details

USN-2709-1 updated pollinate’s certificate for entropy.ubuntu.com but did
not include a new certificate authority certificate.

This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

The pollinate package bundles the certificate for entropy.ubuntu.com. This
update refreshes the certificate to match the new certificate for the
server.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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