On 10/19/19 8:09 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2019-10-19, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote:
It is waiting for entropy to build.
Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for?
Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have
machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful.
Thanks, I'll try that.
That doesn't seem to make any difference.
It is a boot service and needs to start very early in the boot process.
When I first installed it, syslog-ng was starting before it, negating
any usefulness.
This problem affected 4 out of 5 machines after that update.
I'm not sure actually. I only found it after 15 minutes of
troubleshooting while noting the time when things started/stopped. I
came across a log entry with something saying "waiting for entropy" and
when I noted when boot continued another entry like "entropy gathered."
Hmm. No messages like that in demsg output.
Check /var/log/messages too - I don't remember where I came across that
in the logs.
Waiting 20 minutes for a MythTV appliance to start is pretty silly though.
Yea, that's definitely beyond the pale.
How's MythTV these days?
I ran Myth for 10+ years, but got frustrated at the lack of a small
cheap silent front-end.
Does the server still refuse to run on a headless machine without X11
and demand that you configure it via a MythTV client on a UI layed out
for a TV? When I gave up on Myth I switched to SageTV. When Google
bought that and shut it down, I switched to to Plex. Both SageTV and
Plex can run on a server without X11 can be configured via a web UI.
I haven't had to run the setup in like 8 years but I suspect it hasn't
changed. Some frontends use the kodi plugin to access the recordings.
Dan
