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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chrony-3.3 hangs at boot
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:59:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3560477.jXi8gUb11z@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60449A2C-8E0A-46EF-B156-2C37CB8BDD66@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

On Friday, 2 November 2018 16:38:14 GMT Stroller wrote:
> > On 3 Sep 2018, at 19:10, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@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.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-02 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-03 16:48 [gentoo-user] chrony-3.3 hangs at boot Mick
2018-09-03 17:47 ` James Stevenson
2018-09-03 18:04   ` Dale
2018-09-03 18:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Holger Hoffstätte
2018-09-03 21:23   ` Mick
2018-09-03 21:47     ` Holger Hoffstätte
2018-09-04  8:35       ` Mick
2018-11-02 16:38   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2018-11-02 16:59     ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2018-11-02 17:04       ` Mick

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