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service urandom-seed takes too long on boot

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Stefan <stefan-guix <at> vodafonemail.de>
Cc: 36380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:51:19 -0500

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:28:09AM +0100, Stefan wrote:
> “-object rng-random,id=id,filename=/dev/random
> Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from a device on the host. The id parameter is a unique ID that will be used to reference this entropy backend from the virtio-rng device. The filename parameter specifies which file to obtain entropy from and if omitted defaults to /dev/urandom.”

I see, so there is the problem.

It should either be changed to "filename=/dev/urandom", or the QEMU
rng-random mechanism should be disabled.

We still need to implement a timeout to workaround this kind of
misconfiguration... help wanted :)

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