xdm startup takes 1-2minutes with 100% cpu strace shows that xdm is reading from /dev/urandom again and again:
read(4, "V>\24\243B2B\330\346\24\215\322\202\277\276\340\275^\264"..., 8192) = 8192 read(4, "ES}\310\16\220\\\322\265(i\365\233t\3243\205uj\356\307"..., 8192) = 8192 read(4, "\230\16\26\367\247\241\275\255\302\36708?\221\4\343\10"..., 8192) = 8192 read(4, "F\374\204\323\37\325\275\217d\316\331\203O\271\211?)\244"..., 8192) = 8192 read(4, "t\214\30-\312\334^\255\325\317\317Fi\221*Di\266\216\361"..., 8192) = 8192 is it a bug or a feature ;-) ? i am using: debian potato with the unofficial x4 packages for potato from: deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf401_potato/i386/ deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf401_potato/all/ linux kernel 2.2.17 + usb backport the xdm package: (I am using the configuration files from the package - I did no midifications!) i xdm 4.0.1-8 X display manager I tested it on 2 hosts - both had the problem. Before I did build xfree86_4.0.1-0phase2v18 for potato myself and didn't have this problem (at least it didn't take that long). thx for any help/comments karme -- email [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC Karme HP http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~thiele
