On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 05:20:41PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:47 AM Frans de Boer <fr...@fransdb.nl> wrote: > > > >>>> This quite frustrating. After recompiling, following the book to the > > >>>> letter, I still get a frozen LFS system. > > >>>> One thing I do note however is that the freezing always occurs after > > >>>> systemd has detected that it is on a virtual machine. A number of > > >>>> error messages is send, but due to ratelimiting I can't see them > > >>>> because they are suppressed. > > >>>> > > >>>> I had even rebuild everything with systemd-232, and that worked as > > >>>> before. But after 232, things started to behave strange. Now way to > > >>>> debug systemd, whatever I do.... > > >>>> > > >>>> Help? > > >>> > > > Frans, > > Can you please try systemd-239? It should show up in the render tomorrow > morning (US Central time, I'm not sure what it is in UTC). > > I'll make sure it lands in BLFS here in the coming days, just extremely > busy outside of LFS.
If that does't help, now that I've had to apply a workaround to two of my sysv systems to speed booting (lack of entropy on some machines with integrated video and only an SSD) I've got an alternative suggestion - if the kernel is 4.17 or later, or 4.16.4 or later, or (perhaps) 4.14.36 or later, it contains a CVE fix which ensures that getrandom() will not return until the CRNG is properly initialised. That is reported to severely impact _some_ VMs' startup times. The easiest workaround is to install haveged in chroot, and its systemd file in your case. If that is the problem, people differ about the quality of what haveged provides - if you need to generate long-lived security kees (e.g. for gpg) in the VM see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/23/857 (Ted Ts'o's reply to me when I suggested that if I had to use haveged the boot was fast but didn't it weaken future entropy?) ĸen -- Entropy not found, thump keyboard to continue -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
