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On 11/30/18 1:33 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Thank you, Dan. I hadn't heard of it, but your report immediately suggested I |
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> try it to reduce the wait while chronyd started, on two machines here. Worked |
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> like a charm: no waiting for enough entropy to be collected. |
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No problem. |
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What's weird is that bug is known to affect kernels 4.16.x but all my |
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machines use 4.14.x. |
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Out of eight machines only one of them had this problem, which is even |
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more strange. It does happen to be the oldest machine, though. |
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That laptop has had slow boots, but not necessarily Xorg, for a long |
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time and I could never figure it out. I even installed an SSD thinking |
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it could've been the HDD in it a couple years ago; that's how long the |
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slow booting has happened. |
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Never occured to me the random number generator could cause that. |
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Dan |
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