Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

[Daniel Frey]

On 10/19/19 8:09 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2019-10-19, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is waiting for entropy to build.
>>>
>>> Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for?
>>>
>>>> Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have
>>>> machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll try that.
>
> That doesn't seem to make any difference.
>

It is a boot service and needs to start very early in the boot process. 
When I first installed it, syslog-ng was starting before it, negating 
any usefulness.

This problem affected 4 out of 5 machines after that update.

>> I'm not sure actually. I only found it after 15 minutes of
>> troubleshooting while noting the time when things started/stopped. I
>> came across a log entry with something saying "waiting for entropy" and
>> when I noted when boot continued another entry like "entropy gathered."
>
> Hmm. No messages like that in demsg output.
Check /var/log/messages too - I don't remember where I came across that 
in the logs.

>> Waiting 20 minutes for a MythTV appliance to start is pretty silly though.
>
> Yea, that's definitely beyond the pale.
>
> How's MythTV these days?
>
> I ran Myth for 10+ years, but got frustrated at the lack of a small
> cheap silent front-end.
>
> Does the server still refuse to run on a headless machine without X11
> and demand that you configure it via a MythTV client on a UI layed out
> for a TV?  When I gave up on Myth I switched to SageTV. When Google
> bought that and shut it down, I switched to to Plex.  Both SageTV and
> Plex can run on a server without X11 can be configured via a web UI.
>

I haven't had to run the setup in like 8 years but I suspect it hasn't 
changed. Some frontends use the kodi plugin to access the recordings.

Dan