/dev/random java trouble

[experte <leopold-bloom_(_at_)_foni_(_dot_)_net>]

Hi!

When trying to use mindterm from the ports-collection  (a JAVA-based 
ssh-client for X) which worked fine under OpenBSD2.9 i got this 
errror-message:

$ /usr/local/jdk1.3.1-linux/bin/java -classpath\ 
/usr/local/jdk1.3.1-linux/lib/classes.zip:mindtermfull.jar\ 
mindbright.application.MindTerm
...
java.lang.Error: Error in RandomSeed, while reading /dev/random
        at fp.yu(JAX)
        at fp.yt(JAX)
        at fp.ys(JAX)
        at fp.yq(JAX)
        at fd.ww(JAX)
        at ep.ur(JAX)
        at ep.run(JAX)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
Thank you for using MindTerm...
$

This happends both with jdk1.1.8 and 1.3.1. I tried it with a version of 
mindterm not from ports with the same results (The error-messages is a little 
different but also complains about /dev/random). As far as i can see, 
/dev/random was worked over between 2.9 and 3.0.(/usr/src/sys/dev/rnd.c). 
So I guess the linux or freebsd-emulation may be partly broken. I'm not sure 
about the exact point of failure but i wrote a little sample java proc to 
prove my suggestion:

$ cat wont.java
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

class wont {
        public static void main(String args[]) {
                Random x = new Random();
                int i = x.nextInt();
                System.out.println("value: " + i);
                try {
                        FileInputStream f = new 
FileInputStream("/dev/random");
                        int z = f.read();
                        System.out.println("/dev/random says: " + z);
                        }
                catch(IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                }

        }
$

This is what i get under OpenBSD.3.0:

$ /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/bin/javac wont.java
$ /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/bin/java wont
value: 1497353992
java.io.IOException: read error
        at wont.main(wont.java:11)
$ /usr/local/jdk1.3.1-linux/bin/java wont
value: -1971096046
java.io.IOException: Input/output error
        at java.io.FileInputStream.read(Native Method)
        at wont.main(wont.java:11)
$


The same brilliant piece of code runs nicely on a slakware-3-something.
Since i upgraded all my machines to 3.0, i can't prove  that it works under 
2.9 but i think so. 
Note that it works with /dev/urandom on OpenBSD 3.0).


Thanks in advance

Alf