kadmind problem

[Russ Allbery]

"Devine, Steven" <sd at msu.edu> writes:

> Odd problem. Version 1.12.1 

> Any time I start or restart kadmind I can't get it to respond for four
> minutes. If I try to connect to it - it hangs and eventually errors
> out. If I start kadmind with the -nofork switch it does the same thing
> and after 4 minutes says "kadmind: starting..."

> Once the 4 minutes passes I can connect to it and it behaves as
> expected. Any ideas?

I suspect your system has no entropy and it's blocking trying to read
/dev/random.  Check /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail while it's
starting up.  If this is near-zero, that's probably the issue.

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>