Bug#823337: systemd: Boot stalls for 90 s at early boot (system-generators terminated by signal ALRM)

[Alexandre Detiste]

Found it :-)

This is a Python bug: https://bugs.python.org/issue26839

Sorry for cross posting to the three bugs.

I don't know, how/wether these 3 bugs should those been merged.

Martin/Matthias, can you handle this ?

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How I found it:

The first line I get in dmesg after typing something at the keyboard is  "random: nonblocking pool is initialized"

systemd-cron does uses Python's hashlib to compute md5's; but that doesn't need any source of randomness at all.

Now I see even an empty python program
with only the shebang line would still trigger this delay;
so this had to be a python runtime related bug.


Alexandre