GNU bug report logs - #36380
service urandom-seed takes too long on boot

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From: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
To: 36380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:12:28 +0200

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On my VPS, booting takes forever (long enough that for a long
time I thought the install had failed). I just rebooted again,
and it took over 7 minutes, see attached screenshot.

I would suggest skipping the seeding from /dev/hwrng by default
if /var/lib/random-seed is available. I’m assuming here that my
problem is not too rare — if it is, an option to disable the
seeding from /dev/hwrng seems like a good idea.

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