Re: Stalls due to insufficient randomness in cloud images

2019-06-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 02:37:48PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 03, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Does anyone know what RHEL8 (which should have this problem as well) > > does to "fix" this problem? > RHEL8 enables by default rngd from rng-tools, which looks much better to > me than

Re: Stalls due to insufficient randomness in cloud images

2019-06-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 03, Bastian Blank wrote: > Does anyone know what RHEL8 (which should have this problem as well) > does to "fix" this problem? RHEL8 enables by default rngd from rng-tools, which looks much better to me than haveged. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Stalls due to insufficient randomness in cloud images

2019-06-03 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:09:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > d-i is using haveged now, and that's working well AFAICS. are you sure? #923675 is still open... -- tschau, Holger ---

Re: Stalls due to insufficient randomness in cloud images

2019-06-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 12:36:25PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >Hi folks > >We have the famous random stall problem in our cloud images as well. >cloud-init and our other provisioning tools will generate ssh keys and >need randomness for that, so block for several minutes on initial boot.[1] >

Stalls due to insufficient randomness in cloud images

2019-06-03 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks We have the famous random stall problem in our cloud images as well. cloud-init and our other provisioning tools will generate ssh keys and need randomness for that, so block for several minutes on initial boot.[1] For now we have two recipes against this: - amd64 trusts RDRAND, but the