Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Saturday 8 February 2025 10:02:55 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote:
> On Friday 7 February 2025 20:56:00 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson
> 
> wrote:
> > I don't run haveged, but I think you might be on to something regarding
> > the
> > entropy... Googling around shows a lot of people having similar issues.
> > I'm
> > gonna try out haveged and see if it improved the situation.
> 
> You need some way to generate/accumulate enough entropy in your system
> before SDDM is launched.  Please read the 'Troubleshooting' section on the
> wiki page for SDDM, which mentions entropy as the first thing to check:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SDDM#Troubleshooting
> 
> Hopefully, depending on your system, haveged should do the trick.

Another thing to consider, is the CPU or MoBo security chip crypto-processor.  
On recent CPUs/MoBos this co-processor functionality will need to be switched 
on at the BIOS menu and any associated modules in the OS kernel enabled.  
Their functionality is necessary in generating and storing entropy in a timely 
fashion.

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