On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 13:49 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > I've noticed that my system has a delay during boot-up, of about > 20secs. It > *looks* like NM is waiting for urandom - there's no " NetworkManager > (version 1.8.2) is starting " message until right after "random: > nonblocking > pool is initialized ". > That might just be a coincidence (though other services etc *have* > started > by then), but if not then I'm curious what the dependency is (and > whether > there's a way round it for faster boot). > Hi,
that is quite possible that NM reads urandom. For example, to generate a key in /var/lib/NetworkManager/secret_key That doesn't seem wrong. We could try to call getrandom() instead, but that probably would block just as long. Thomas
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