[Daniel Kahn Gillmor] > I'm likely to try proposal (a) as 0.41-2 unless i hear other > suggestions.
In Debian Edu we ran into a similar problem within debian-installer, when setting up Kerberos. The installation would hang because the Linux kernel collect entropy from so few sources and almost none of the sources have activity during installation. We solved it by running a shell script loop in the background checking the entropy level, and flushing the disk cache and doing find / to generate disk IO when entropy run low. Perhaps an idea for the test code? Check out <URL: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-edu/debian-edu-config.git/tree/share/debian-edu-config/d-i/finish-install > for the Debian Edu implementation. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
