On 11/30/18 1:33 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Thank you, Dan. I hadn't heard of it, but your report immediately suggested I
try it to reduce the wait while chronyd started, on two machines here. Worked
like a charm: no waiting for enough entropy to be collected.
No problem.
What's weird is that bug is known to affect kernels 4.16.x but all my
machines use 4.14.x.
Out of eight machines only one of them had this problem, which is even
more strange. It does happen to be the oldest machine, though.
That laptop has had slow boots, but not necessarily Xorg, for a long
time and I could never figure it out. I even installed an SSD thinking
it could've been the HDD in it a couple years ago; that's how long the
slow booting has happened.
Never occured to me the random number generator could cause that.
Dan
