[35946] in Kerberos
Re: kadmind problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Fri Mar 28 21:41:28 2014
From: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
To: "Devine\, Steven" <sd@msu.edu>
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(Steven Devine's message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:35:36 +0000")
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:41:17 -0700
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"Devine, Steven" <sd@msu.edu> writes:
> Odd problem. Version 1.12.1
> Any time I start or restart kadmind I can't get it to respond for four
> minutes. If I try to connect to it - it hangs and eventually errors
> out. If I start kadmind with the -nofork switch it does the same thing
> and after 4 minutes says "kadmind: starting..."
> Once the 4 minutes passes I can connect to it and it behaves as
> expected. Any ideas?
I suspect your system has no entropy and it's blocking trying to read
/dev/random. Check /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail while it's
starting up. If this is near-zero, that's probably the issue.
--
Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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