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Re: Erratic behavior of full resync process

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard J. Peirce)
Wed Jun 10 14:12:09 2015

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This has been resolved.  The problem was a lack of entropy that caused
kadmind to block while reading /dev/random and of course refuse connections
from kpropd.  I installed/started haveged and kadmind now starts up fine.

Since we've always run Kerberos on Solaris we never had a problem with
kadmind and /dev/random since Solaris apparently uses both hardware
and software for random number generation.

The complaints from kadmind about clock skew problems threw me off
for while.

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Leonard J. Peirce
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