kadmind problem

[Tom Yu]

Russ Allbery <eagle at eyrie.org> writes:

> 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.

Also you can use the '-W' switch to kadmind to allow it to read from
the nonblocking /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, if that fits your
risk profile.