On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:10 AM Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:05:12AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote: > > Is the issue gaw saw exclusive to xen first boots? Are there other > > ways to end up in his situation? > > It happens on all new installations for machines with no RNG, which is > the far majority of everything but "newish" amd64 and a few arm and mips > boards/SoC. > > It is unrelated to Xen. > > Martin
So on a brand new installation/first boot why isn't the clock a sufficiently random thing? (anymore?) Hung and unusable systems are a big problem. Happening on the first boot is not a good first impression. :)