> On 11 October 2017 at 14:56 Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Thanks Thomas. I found your blog related to this - https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/category/networkmanager/ - is the use of urandom only related to WiFi and/or IPv6 functionality (which I don't need), and could it be disabled with a config setting? _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
