On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 11:52:50PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am running Debian Sid/Buster and the Mate desktop. For the last 4 or 5 > weeks there has been a delay of perhaps 30-40 seconds before the desktop > appears. I have looked at dmsg logs and journalctl logs but nothing seems to > stand out. > > A year or more ago Mate users had a similar problem - at that time as I > recall it had something to do with the system entropy for random numbers. > Anybody recall this? Could it be back ?
Coincidentally, there has been some conversation on LKML recently about an issue with getrandom() lacking entropy causing boot hangs. Interesting read here: https://lwn.net/Articles/800509/ Getting back to your issue, you may want to try this out and see if it works: # apt install haveged # systemctl enable haveged # systemctl start haveged Have a look at this: https://handyman.dulare.com/long-linux-boot-time-haveged-to-help/ -- Regards Anuradha
