> On 3 Sep 2018, at 19:10, Holger Hoffstätte <hol...@applied-asynchrony.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:48:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> I just noticed today chronyd hangs during boot for a minute and a half. The >> logs do not reveal anything amiss. I suspect it waits for a network >> connection, which is not yet up when chronyd launches. >> … > > Yes and yes; countless people have been hit by this, I was probably the first > to notice/debug it. It happens due to changes in Linux' random number > generator, which is now slowly making it into older kernels as well.
Perhaps I'm experiencing this because I'm using a Linode VM - it seems to hang indefinitely, not just for 90 seconds - but it looks a bit like the devs have passed the report upstream and left the affected versions in the tree to bite stable users. Stroller.
