On Friday, 2 November 2018 16:59:32 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 2 November 2018 16:38:14 GMT Stroller wrote: > > > 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. > > It just happens on one machine here, but I shorten the wait by rattling keys > to supply entropy.
I'm on chrony-3.3 and gentoo kernel-4.14.78. I have not noticed this problem for a while now. -- Regards, Mick
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