Another possibility is to split the gnutls random generator initialization to preinitialization (open fds, check for getrandom()), and initialization (read from the previous detected sources). That would allow gnutls to be used on early boot without causing any delay. The drawback would be some performance penalty on multi-threaded environments on the usage of the random generator.
I have patch at: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/merge_requests/111/ if you are interested for a review or comments. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1622893 Title: NetworkManager takes very long to start, or times out, blocked on RNG Status in Auto Package Testing: Fix Released Status in gnutls28 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Since a few days ago, NetworkManager.service takes awfully long to start, or even times out on failure and then gets restarted. This happens in a 16.10 desktop amd64 installation in QEMU, or e. g. in the systemd "boot-smoke" autopkgtest where every boot takes > 1:30 minutes due to the NM timeout. In the journal there is no actual logging from /usr/sbin/NetworkManager yet, just the start timeout. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: network-manager 1.2.2-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: i3 Date: Tue Sep 13 10:05:05 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback source-directory interfaces.d NetworkManager.conf: [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile,ofono [ifupdown] managed=false NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN running 1.2.2 connected started full enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/1622893/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
