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

[Sumit Bose]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 01:14:58PM +0100, Petr Spacek wrote:
> 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 :-)

ok, I've opened https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4210 for the
time being.

bye,
Sumit

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