Bug#906266: Found the problem and a solution

[Simon McVittie]

Control: retitle -1 gdm3: Starting session with insufficient entropy takes a long time unless mouse is moved

On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 12:09:38 +0200, rastersoft wrote:
> This is the system log from my login (I did the login precisely at 11:48:00
> on purpose):
...
> Aug 16 11:48:03 debian systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000.
> Aug 16 11:52:14 debian kernel: [  289.016099] random: crng init done
> 
> show the problem: the random number generator is blocking the login process.
> That explains why moving the mouse reduces the login time: it generates
> entropy for the generator.

I don't think there is really anything that gdm3 can do to improve on
that situation, unfortunately. Retitling the bug to summarize this as
a known issue.

> Subject: Re: Bug#906266: Found the problem and a solution

Please bear in mind that Debian maintainers will often see messages like
this out-of-context, so keeping the original subject line (a brief summary
of the bug) usually provides better context than changing it to a summary
of the current status without any information about what the bug was. We
don't necessarily know what Bug#906266 means without looking it up :-)

    smcv