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

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Subject: Bug#320838: kdm uses /dev/random, instead of /dev/urandom, and blocks on some systems with poor entropy
From: Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:16:17 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20050801211617.E628A80B8@smtp.buttersideup.com>
Reply-to: Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>, 320838@bugs.debian.org

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 bug is slightly related:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118051

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