Christopher Martin wrote:
On August 1, 2005 21:16, Tim Small wrote:
Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Severity: important
On machines with not much entropy, kdm blocks on startup as it runs out
of entropy from /dev/random. It should probably use /dev/urandom
instead.
Possibly related to #294267 #240027 #298254 and maybe others. This is
particularly troublesome on NFS root machines.
This is fixed in KDE 3.4, so future uploads will take of this problem. In
the meantime, you can manually tell kdm to use /dev/urandom by
editing /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc (RandomDevice=/dev/urandom).
Cheers,
Christopher Martin
OK - out of interest, are there any plans to fix this for future Sarge
revs (e.g. by making this the config file default), or is that against
policy for a bug of this severity?
One of the side-effects is that sometimes kdm gives up on /dev/random,
and creates an unauthenticated X session - i.e. all clients can connect
(although it does put a red warning on the log-in dialogue to reflect
this). I suppose this does make it vaguely security related.
Ta,
Tim.
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