[Freeipa-devel] Entropy aka ipa-server-install failed

[Petr Spacek]

On 28.2.2014 12:10, Sumit Bose wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:59:57AM +0100, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> On 28.2.2014 11:53, Sumit Bose wrote:
>>> I just tried to install FreeIPA on a fresh F20 VM and
>>> 'ipa-server-install --setup-dns' failed to start FreeIPA finally after
>>> everything was configured.
>>>
>>> The reason was that starting named timed out because
>>> generate-rndc-key.sh was basically blocking because there was no entropy
>>> for /dev/random left to generate a proper key. I wonder if it would make
>>> sense to call generate-rndc-key.sh during ipa-server-install if
>>> --setup-dns is given to avoid this.
>>
>> We can do it but it will only shift the problem to different place.
>
> yes, but if we do it during ipa-server-install we have it under control
> and can give a hint that this step needs entropy, might need a long
> time and the user might help by producing additional network or disk
> I/O.

That sounds reasonable. Please open a ticket or send a patch :-)

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Petr^2 Spacek