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author | Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> | 2010-03-23 02:12:33 -0400 |
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committer | Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> | 2010-03-23 02:12:33 -0400 |
commit | dbeab30f940705e3813746ccf7480619d8261d37 (patch) | |
tree | 099a0b3224b666bfc1289462f1a6d01a24763102 /website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn | |
parent | 0f6ef9923f4d70e2a79edd898f6ac46b617480c9 (diff) | |
parent | 2f9fe93b98ed32b662212899db6ba2174c1138d3 (diff) |
Merge remote branch 'mjgoins/master'
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doc/george/changelog
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diff --git a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index c7912de..0000000 --- a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta title="Running `monkeysphere gen-key` on a headless server takes way too long"]] - -When i try to generate a key on a headless machine (no kbd, no mouse, -no Human Input Device (HID) at all), `monkeysphere gen-key` hangs for -a *very* long time (over an hour so far!) during the generation -process, particularly at this point: - - ms: generating server key... - - Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give - the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 197 more bytes) - -And sure enough, there really is very little entropy in these systems -at the time requested: - - 0 chomsky:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail - 32 - 0 chomsky:~# - -It's not clear to me how to increase the entropy available to the -kernel without an HID. - -I've seen this happen on two machines now in the last week, and was -able to resolve it on the first one by plugging in a keyboard and -"massaging" it. This won't work for a machine that's out of physical -range, and has no keyboard to be plugged in anyway. - -One thing that might help is to suggest that the system administrator -install a package like `bsdgames` and play console-based games as a -non-privileged user, since that seems to feed the entropy count -somewhat. |