Thierry Dumont wrote: > William Stein a écrit : >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Kwankyu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a problem starting a sage server after, I think, upgrading to >>> Ubuntu 9.10 server edition. It just hangs at the point "Generating a >>> 2048 bit RSA private key..." See the following transcript: >>> >>> >>> >>> Any idea to fix the problem? >>> >> I have seen that. I think it's a bug in certtool. I don't know how >> to fix the problem though. You might try installing all >> openssl-related Ubuntu packages... >> >> William >> >> > When you say that it hangs: how long did you wait? This seems funny but > in my case, after *some* *minutes* the generation finished (may be 5 > minutes !!!). > Is not this related to a problem of "entropy" in the computer ? I > remember that, may be 10 years ago, it whas necessary to make some mouse > movements during the ssh keys generation procedure, as the random number > generator used the computer activity. Here I think that the generation > finished when I launched "top" on the machine. But I have only one > experience. Try to make some activity on the machine during the key > generation.... and wait (a long time).
I remember when it was recommended to do: find / to generate disk activity while generating the key Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
