On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:33 AM, John Cremona <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having exactly the same problem as the original poster. The > machine runs 64-bit ubuntu (Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic > (bui...@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #44- > Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:55:09 UTC 2009) > > I don't have certtool installed on the machine (except the Sage > version).
Can you try installing the system-wide certtool and see what happens? GNU provides one implementation of certtool and openssl provides another. The openssl one is excellent and robust -- the GNU one is often insanely slow. Sage has to include the GNU one... > > While it hangs at the point "Generating a 2048 bit RSA private > key..." I checked what was happening in another window: > > j...@selmer%ps aux | grep certtool > sage 13068 0.0 0.0 4028 588 pts/7 S<+ 11:05 0:00 /bin/ > sh -c certtool --generate-privkey --outfile /home/sage/.sage/dsage/ > cacert.pem > sage 13069 0.0 0.0 15960 1480 pts/7 S<+ 11:05 0:00 > certtool --generate-privkey --outfile /home/sage/.sage/dsage/ > cacert.pem > > Note that this is 25 minutes after starting to wait, and that certtool > is doing nothing at all (S means Suspended, right?) > > I tried running the certtool command outside Sage (after doing "sage - > sh"), namely > certtool --generate-privkey --outfile /home/sage/.sage/dsage/ > cacert.pem > but the same happened, i.e. nothing and no return... > > Any ideas for how to sort this out would be welcome. And it would be > nice to be able to test the correct running of certtool when Sage is > built. > > John Cremona > > > On 16 Nov, 09:45, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> In my case just waiting for about 10 minutes solved the problem as the >> entropy on the computer where I started sage was too low. >> >> greetings marc >> >> On Nov 12, 3:22 am, 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 >> > [...] > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
