Interesting! I'd also noticed 'random: init done' being piped to console well 
after the server had booted, but I didn't mention it because I didn't think it 
was related. What you've said makes a lot of sense.

On Sat, 5 May 2018 11:54:54 +0200 Arne Nordmark <nordm...@mech.kth.se> wrote:
> I have also seen this on a couple of SSD-only systems.
> 
> I think the problem is that the random number generator takes about two
> minutes to initialize, long enough for systemd to give up on these
> processes. Unbound is similar, but there unit file keeps trying until
> the random numbers are available.
> 
> From the log:
> May  5 10:19:02 ano2 kernel: [  126.436729] random: crng init done
> 
> Pressing the keyboard a few times (thus providing entropy) will allow
> the boot to continue.
> 
> This definitely seems to be a kernel problem.
> 
> Arne
> 
> 

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