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.
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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.

Stroller.