On August 1, 2005 21:16, Tim Small wrote: > Package: kdm > Version: 4:3.3.2-1 > Severity: important > > On machines with not much entropy, kdm blocks on startup as it runs out > of entropy from /dev/random. It should probably use /dev/urandom > instead. > > Possibly related to #294267 #240027 #298254 and maybe others. This is > particularly troublesome on NFS root machines.
This is fixed in KDE 3.4, so future uploads will take of this problem. In the meantime, you can manually tell kdm to use /dev/urandom by editing /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc (RandomDevice=/dev/urandom). Cheers, Christopher Martin
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