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



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