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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 22:24:01
Message-Id: c889d536-13f2-51b1-5151-1d762d898854@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup by Daniel Frey
1 moriah ~ # esearch haveged
2 [ Results for search key : haveged ]
3 [ Applications found : 1 ]
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5 *  sys-apps/haveged
6       Latest version available: 1.9.2-r1
7       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
8       Size of downloaded files: 483 kB
9       Homepage:    http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/
10       Description: A simple entropy daemon using the HAVEGE algorithm
11       License:     GPL-3+
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13 moriah ~ #
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18 On 19/10/19 10:34 pm, Daniel Frey wrote:
19 > On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
20 >> On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
21 >>
22 >>> It is waiting for entropy to build.
23 >>
24 >> Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for?
25 >>
26 >>> Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have
27 >>> machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful.
28 >>
29 >> Thanks, I'll try that.
30 >>
31 >
32 > I'm not sure actually. I only found it after 15 minutes of
33 > troubleshooting while noting the time when things started/stopped. I
34 > came across a log entry with something saying "waiting for entropy"
35 > and when I noted when boot continued another entry like "entropy
36 > gathered."
37 >
38 > Those aren't the actual log entries but what I "translated" the
39 > entries to.
40 >
41 > Thankfully I wasn't scratching my head for hours over that one. I did
42 > find if you left it long enough (my IR device would continue boot on
43 > its own after 20 minutes or so) it would eventually boot.
44 >
45 > Waiting 20 minutes for a MythTV appliance to start is pretty silly
46 > though.
47 >
48 > Dan
49 >
50 >