On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 13:49 +0100, colin helliwell ln-systems com wrote:
I've noticed that my system has a delay during boot-up, of about 20secs. It *looks* like NM is waiting for urandom - there's no " NetworkManager (version 1.8.2) is starting " message until right after "random: nonblocking pool is initialized ". That might just be a coincidence (though other services etc *have* started by then), but if not then I'm curious what the dependency is (and whether there's a way round it for faster boot).
Hi, that is quite possible that NM reads urandom. For example, to generate a key in /var/lib/NetworkManager/secret_key That doesn't seem wrong. We could try to call getrandom() instead, but that probably would block just as long. Thomas
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