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steps to reproduce:

apk add rng-tools
/etc/init.d/rngd start

actual result:

 * Caching service dependencies ...
Service `hwdrivers' needs non existent service `dev'                      [ ok ]
 * Starting rngd ...
 * start-stop-daemon: caught an interrupt
 * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/rngd died
 * Failed to start rngd                                                   [ !! ]
 * ERROR: rngd failed to start

additional info: this works

# rngd && ps | grep rngd
Failed to init entropy source 0: Hardware RNG Device

Failed to init entropy source 1: TPM RNG Device

 4232 root      0:00 rngd
 4234 root      0:00 grep rngd

proposed solution:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/funtoo/nokit/1.4-release/sys-apps/rng-tools/files/rngd-initd-6.7-r1 \
    > /etc/init.d/rngd