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From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:02:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13698663.uLZWGnKmhe@rogueboard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66993777-862d-418e-bcef-5ffbf4c175b4@app.fastmail.com>

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On Friday 7 February 2025 20:56:00 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson 
wrote:
> I don't run haveged, but I think you might be on to something regarding the
> entropy... Googling around shows a lot of people having similar issues. I'm
> gonna try out haveged and see if it improved the situation.

You need some way to generate/accumulate enough entropy in your system before 
SDDM is launched.  Please read the 'Troubleshooting' section on the wiki page 
for SDDM, which mentions entropy as the first thing to check:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SDDM#Troubleshooting

Hopefully, depending on your system, haveged should do the trick.

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-08 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-25 21:41 [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show Markus Gustafsson
2025-01-26 11:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-26 12:33   ` Michael
2025-01-29 21:19     ` Markus Gustafsson
2025-01-30  8:06       ` Michael
2025-02-02 11:09         ` Markus Gustafsson
2025-02-02 13:11           ` Michael
2025-02-07 20:56             ` Markus Gustafsson
2025-02-08 10:02               ` Michael [this message]
2025-02-08 11:02                 ` Michael
2025-02-11 17:20                   ` Alan Grimes

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