Bug#902336: systemd: sddm login screen does not appear until after more than a minute

[Martin Steigerwald]

Michael Biebl - 25.06.18, 17:20:
> Am 25.06.2018 um 15:11 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > Am 25.06.2018 um 09:18 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> >> Package: systemd
> >> Version: 239-1
> >> Severity: normal
> >> 
> >> Dear Michael, dear Maintainers,
> >> 
> >> Since using kernel 4.17-rc7 I think (now using self compiled 4.17
> >> vanilla kernel), I see a strange new behavior on this ThinkPad
> >> T520. I did not yet test whether it is related to the kernel or
> >> something else I upgraded at around the same time.
> > 
> > I vaguely remember that recently there were issues related to
> > missing
> > entropy for the RNG, delaying boot in certain cases.
> > This was a kernel related change ttbomk.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897572
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/05/msg00599.html

I now just typed stuff into the login prompt without actually logging in 
and sddm appeared after just a few seconds of doing so. Kernel put

[   25.043568] random: crng init done
[   25.043760] random: 3 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting

to console (and in dmesg).

-- 
Martin