Re: Mate desktop delay

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 10/14/19 8:08 AM, Anuradha Weeraman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 11:52:50PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > I am running Debian Sid/Buster and the Mate desktop. For the last 4 or 5
> > weeks there has been a delay of perhaps 30-40 seconds before the desktop
> > appears. I have looked at dmsg logs and journalctl logs but nothing seems to
> > stand out.
> >
> > A year or more ago Mate users had a similar problem - at that time as I
> > recall it had something to do with the system entropy for random numbers.
> > Anybody recall this? Could it be back ?
>
> Coincidentally, there has been some conversation on LKML recently about
> an issue with getrandom() lacking entropy causing boot hangs. Interesting
> read here:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/800509/

Interesting article.

> Getting back to your issue, you may want to try this out and see if
> it works:
>
> # apt install haveged
> # systemctl enable haveged
> # systemctl start haveged

This was the solution the last time this happened and it's still part
of the system here.


I find it strange the random bug does not delay boot time in my case, 
but apparently does delay the appearance of the desktop after GDM.


--
Frank McCormick