kadmind problem

[Devine, Steven]

Yes that was exactly it. I installed haveged and it works great! Thanks Russ.

/sd
Steve Devine
Michigan State University


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From: Russ Allbery [eagle at eyrie.org]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 9:41 PM
To: Devine, Steven
Cc: kerberos at mit.edu
Subject: Re: kadmind problem

"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.

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