From 2f9fe93b98ed32b662212899db6ba2174c1138d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew James Goins Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:07:30 -0400 Subject: Removed docs and website. They will now reside (for my repo) at git://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~mjgoins/monkeysphere.info/ --- ...servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn | 31 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn (limited to 'website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3