Sorry, i think the stuff I was reading was hang "before" the crng init comes back ready, not after.
> On May 18, 2021, at 8:30 AM, david_john...@brown.edu wrote: > > There have been reports of this in various discussion groups, one suggestion > is to plug in a mouse and move it around to help the kernel gather enough > entropy for the random number generator. Another suggestion on the rhel > support site (beyond wait for the fix in rhel8.3) is to add > random.trust_cpu=on to kernel command line options. This requires rdrand > support listed in /proc/cpuinfo to work. > > -- ddj > Dave Johnson > >> On May 18, 2021, at 8:08 AM, David Baker <d.j.ba...@soton.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> We are trying to install RHELS 7.9 on a Dell PowerEdge C6525. This is a >> diskless installation. The test node has been discovered by xcat, the image >> is picked up and the installation starts as expected. Unfortunately, the >> installation hangs at 'random: crng init done' and gets no further. We have >> tried switching to RH 7.8 and installing the haveged rpm with RH 7.9, but >> neither of these approaches have helped. Could someone please offer some >> advice? >> >> I've never seen this sort of behaviour before and haven't got a clue what to >> try next. Should we look at upgrading the firmware, for example? >> >> Best regards, >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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