X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=website%2Fbugs%2Fheadless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn;h=8f1da5a4aff21c12bf84f957f46db578a5e4a682;hb=2b5cd0f910f28a601bcecfe68cdfc1ffd9b1362c;hp=634f7317218d2e57d3eb3cc4c68591ca9e2b569e;hpb=7a40118fa1132ee3e1f0427fcbf5a8d3d064a087;p=monkeysphere.git diff --git a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn index 634f731..8f1da5a 100644 --- a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ When i try to generate a key on a headless machine (no kbd, no mouse, no Human Input Device (HID) at all), `monkeysphere gen-key` hangs for -a *very* long time (a half hour at least) during the generation +a *very* long time (over an hour so far!) during the generation process, particularly at this point: ms: generating server key... @@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ I've seen this happen on two machines now in the last week, and was able to resolve it on the first one by plugging in a keyboard and "massaging" it. This won't work for a machine that's out of physical range, and has no keyboard to be plugged in anyway. + +One thing that might help is to suggest that the system administrator +install a package like `bsdgames` and play console-based games as a +non-privileged user, since that seems to feed the entropy count +somewhat.