On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Desmond Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, a recent bug in ssl-cert would > cause the installation process to freeze" How long did you wait for ssl-cert? It generates a secure certificate by reading a fairly large amount of random data. This data is generated from various sources, including keyboard and mouse movement and timings. I thought that the install had died on my box until I straced the process and saw it reading from /dev/random. It sounds silly, but try wiggling the mouse and see if it completes faster. This generates entropy bits faster, so the process of picking random numbers goes faster. Or even fire up kgolf or some similar activity ;-) In my instance it took only about a minute of mouse activity before the process completed. You can run "strace -p `pgrep openssl`" to see how many bytes it's got left to read once it hangs at "Setting up ssl-cert".
That all said, I haven't looked at the bug database for ssl-cert; if there's a bug other than "it's slow" disregard this mail. Will _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
