[Info-vax] SSH/SCP sessions hanging for 7 minutes while reading from "/dev/random"

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 11:31:07 AM UTC+13, sphowes wrote:
> While running an 'ssh -D 99' I can see that all of the delay time is being spent
> while trying to read from "/dev/random". Each iteration of "Starting read from
> /dev/random" is taking a minute to timeout and then returning with
> "Opening /dev/random failed" and then it tries again for a total of 7 total tries. 

Lack of system entropy to keep /dev/random fed? This is why we have /dev/urandom, for all but the most critical uses.