Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2020-02-08 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Michael, On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 11:38:23AM -0500, Michael J. Redd wrote: > I've upgraded my VMs to the 10.3 point release and can confirm that > cryptographic services (SSH and others) start quite rapidly now on > system boot. Thanks for confirming! Closing then the bug as well with

Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2020-02-08 Thread Michael J. Redd
I've upgraded my VMs to the 10.3 point release and can confirm that cryptographic services (SSH and others) start quite rapidly now on system boot. Thanks, all! -Michael

Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2020-02-06 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Michael, On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:36:49PM -0500, Michael J. Redd wrote: > Apologies for the late reply. I can certainly test on some of my VMs if > you're willing to provide packages. The packages containing the change Noah mentioned will be released in two days with the 10.3 point release.

Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2020-02-06 Thread Michael J. Redd
Apologies for the late reply. I can certainly test on some of my VMs if you're willing to provide packages. Reading over Linus' explanation of deriving jitter from the CPU's cycle counter, while I'm no cryptographer, I might have some concerns about the quality of the entropy that will be

Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2020-01-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 09:42:17AM -0400, Michael J. Redd wrote: > > The release notes for buster do mention this issue and provide a > > link to: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation > > > > which has your Haveged solution as one of its suggestions. > > > > D'oh!

Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2019-07-11 Thread Michael J. Redd
> The release notes for buster do mention this issue and provide a > link to: > > https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation > > which has your Haveged solution as one of its suggestions. > D'oh! Serves me right for just skimming the release notes, then. After doing some in-depth

Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2019-07-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Michael, On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 12:59:29PM -0400, Michael J. Redd wrote: > After upgrading to Debian Buster, Xen PV guests' entropy pool is too > low to start cryptographic services in a timely manner. This results in > 30+ second delays in the startup of services such as SSH. The release

Bug#931644: Buster kernel entropy pool too low on VM boot

2019-07-08 Thread Michael J. Redd
Package: linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64 Version: 4.19.0-5 Issue: == After upgrading to Debian Buster, Xen PV guests' entropy pool is too low to start cryptographic services in a timely manner. This results in 30+ second delays in the startup of services such as SSH. If I connect to the VM's