Hanging GNOME login

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Tuesday, May 8. 2018

Hanging GNOME login

Now this is a weird problem: A machine with lightdm, set to auto-login a user, started the GNOME-session, but that was hanging (i.e. not even updating the background picture), and only continued after moving the mouse around for a few seconds.

Turns out that something in the session needs enough entropy to be available! (i.e. was reading from /dev/random or using getrandom(2))

I chose to go the easy way: apt install haveged (a daemon which provides additional entropy based on some CPU timing stuff)
Posted by Martin Schuster in Linux at 20:19 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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