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Bug#320838: kdm uses /dev/random, instead of /dev/urandom, and blocks on some systems with poor entropy



On August 1, 2005 21:16, Tim Small wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Version: 4:3.3.2-1
> Severity: important
>
> On machines with not much entropy, kdm blocks on startup as it runs out
> of entropy from /dev/random.  It should probably use /dev/urandom
> instead.
>
> Possibly related to #294267 #240027 #298254 and maybe others.  This is
> particularly troublesome on NFS root machines.

This is fixed in KDE 3.4, so future uploads will take of this problem. In 
the meantime, you can manually tell kdm to use /dev/urandom by 
editing /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc (RandomDevice=/dev/urandom).

Cheers,
Christopher Martin

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