Re: systemctl restart sddm
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer - 23.07.18, 15:21:
> El lunes, 23 de julio de 2018 03:01:36 -03 Martin Steigerwald
escribió:
> > Hello inkbottle.
> >
> > inkbottle - 22.07.18, 23:42:
> > > As some of you already know, since *completely uneventful* upgrade
> > > of
> > > Friday, July 20, 2018, "sddm" does not start automatically
> > > anymore,
> > > whether because something goes wrong at some point or because it
> > > doesn't start at all, meaning it is not even invoked in the first
> > > place, that I know not ;)
> >
> > Are you aware of
> >
> > sddm: takes extremely long time to start
> > https://bugs.debian.org/898092
> >
> > Workaround #1: Just type something in tty until there is enough
> > randomness. It usually just takes 5-20 seconds of typing something
> > into tty. You don´t even need to login, just type something into
> > the login prompt.
> >
> > Workaround #2: Install haveged (Maxy set it to recommended with sddm
> > 0.18 package).
> >
> > Workaround #3: Downgrade the kernel.
> >
> > I am still using workaround #1, cause I am not convinced that
> > installing haveged is beneficial for the reliability of
> > /dev/random, at least not for creating new SSH and GPG keys.
> > However there is a host of different opinions on that.
>
> Some people even found this bug with kernel 4.16, it seems that
> something in the kernel is changing.
AFAIR kernel developers changed that the kernel is now more honest about
when it has gathered enough entropy to initialize the random number
generator. Thus /dev/random blocks longer after boot.
--
Martin
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