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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#37501: [core-updates] Entropy starvation during boot
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:42:48 +0200
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To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
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Hello!

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> After reconfiguring on the 'core-updates' branch, systems using the
> OpenSSH service will occasionally (not always!) hang forever during
> boot, waiting for entropy.  Moving the mouse or mashing the keyboard
> allows the boot to proceed.
>
> I don't think this is limited to OpenSSH, but anything that calls
> getrandom() during startup.
>
> There is some information about this problem and various workarounds
> here, including links to recent LKML discussions:
>
> https://daniel-lange.com/archives/152-hello-buster.html
>
> For Guix, I believe adding (service urandom-seed-service-type) to
> %base-services should be sufficient, but have not verified this yet.

=E2=80=98urandom-seed=E2=80=99 is already part of =E2=80=98%base-services=
=E2=80=99.  I have Guix System
on =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 since Sept. 19th, and I haven=E2=80=99t e=
xperienced the
problem (or at least it always booted without troubles; could it be that
I didn=E2=80=99t notice?).

Did you remove =E2=80=98urandom-seed=E2=80=99 from your list of services?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.