[Bringing the GnuTLS maintainers into the loop here] On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:50:05 -0400 Sten Heinze <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: network-manager > Version: 1.2.4-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > * Since my upgrade last Friday this happens on every boot. > * Before the login manager is displayed, I can see the following message, > waiting the full 90s: > > [ *** ] A start job is running for Network Manager (30s/1min 30s) > > * Sometimes I could see the following output on the console just before > the login manager takes over, but I have not seen those since installing > systemd from sid 231-5 and -6 instead of -4 from testing: > > [FAILED] Failed to start Network Manager. > [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Network Manager Wait Online. > > * The output of "journalctl -u NetworkManager" contains a first failed start > during boot, followed by a successful start (I have seen two failed starts > followed by a successful start, too): > > Sep 12 12:28:31 pc systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager... > Sep 12 12:30:01 pc systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Start operation timed > out. Terminating.
The relevant Ubuntu bug report is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1622893 This issue is apparently triggered by a change in gnutls which now uses getrandom() instead of reading from /dev/urandom directly. This makes it less suitable for early boot. See also https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/merge_requests/111/ @GnuTLS maintainers: would you consider cherry-picking those patches? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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