rng-tools5 bug in the 5.3 version

[Member stevesr0]

Hi,

All of a sudden, after logging in, the screen sits for variable periods of time before responding (black and white to color and ability to access the menu.

Today, I noted it responded immediately after I clicked (touchpad mouse).

I checked dmesg and only noted a line suggesting an entropy issue (related to a bug in recent kernels that ?blocks /random from creating entropy.

I just tried installing rng-tools5 to fix this, and on reboot still noted the problem.

There is a bug with the 5.3 version of rng-tools5 – no init script. Fixed in v 5.4 which isn’t in our repository. I downloaded the patch the maintainer provided, but don’t know how to apply it (I haven’t compiled or recompiled programs.

If anyone else has had the same problem, I can refer them to the patch (especially if they know how to apply it <g>).

Next step – checking how to apply patches.

Steve

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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You could use haveged instead.

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[Member stevesr0]

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@ anticapitalista,

Thanks for the comment.

I did.

With the boot after uninstalling rng-tools5 and installing haveged, it moved reasonably fast from the black and white to the color after login.

dmesg diidn’t show the crng init error message, so I think that may have fixed it.

Also, I was saying version 5.3, but actually 5.1 is the version in the repository. In any event, I couldn’t get rng-tools5 to start and I think I can with haveged — I don’t get an error message when I command the service to stop and then to start.

We will see…

BY THE WAY,

I didn’t try to apply the patch because it was for the Debian 5.1 package and I wasn’t sure whether the version in the repositories was from a debian package or a modified one for antiX. another reason I gave up.

stevesr0

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