On Friday, 2 November 2018 16:38:14 GMT Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Sep 2018, at 19:10, Holger Hoffstätte <hol...@applied-asynchrony.com> > > wrote:> > > On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:48:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> I just noticed today chronyd hangs during boot for a minute and a half. > >> The logs do not reveal anything amiss. I suspect it waits for a network > >> connection, which is not yet up when chronyd launches. > >> … > > > > Yes and yes; countless people have been hit by this, I was probably the > > first to notice/debug it. It happens due to changes in Linux' random > > number generator, which is now slowly making it into older kernels as > > well. > Perhaps I'm experiencing this because I'm using a Linode VM - it seems to > hang indefinitely, not just for 90 seconds - but it looks a bit like the > devs have passed the report upstream and left the affected versions in the > tree to bite stable users.
It just happens on one machine here, but I shorten the wait by rattling keys to supply entropy. -- Regards, Peter.
