It seems that the behavior of /dev/random has changed recently in rawhide. I have a machine configured to use an encrypted swap space with /dev/random as the source for the key via the "-d /dev/random" option to cryptsetup. Until recently the command "cryptsetup -d /dev/random create swap /dev/hda2" completed in a reasonable amount of time. Now it will hang almost indefinitely (I've waited for over 16 minutes). Pressing the SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT keys repeatedly during the boot process can make cryptsetup complete in as little as a second. It seems to me that previous kernels used some entropy that's available during boot (such as interrupts from the hard disk) and recent kernels have stopped doing so. Is this a bug or a feature? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
