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RE: kadmind problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Devine, Steven)
Fri Mar 28 21:56:29 2014
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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:56:26 +0000
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Yes that was exactly it. I installed haveged and it works great! Thanks Russ.
/sd
Steve Devine
Michigan State University
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From: Russ Allbery [eagle@eyrie.org]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 9:41 PM
To: Devine, Steven
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Subject: Re: kadmind problem
"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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