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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/30/2021 1:39 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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?

More like lack of /dev/random completely.

Arne