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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