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

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
Cc: 36380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:44:55 -0400

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:24:01PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> So, I suggest we add a 1 second timeout to this read.
> 
> I can work on that next week.

I did try working on this, after reading the code in (guix scripts
offload (call-with-timeout)).

But, I couldn't make it work at all — it always fails, with all the
services depending on urandom-seed-service failing, breaking the boot.

I don't know how to debug or work interactively in this part of the
system.

Can anybody help?

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