bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot

[Robert Vollmert]

> On 26. Jun 2019, at 17:47, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
>> On my VPS, booting takes forever (long enough that for a long
>> time I thought the install had failed). I just rebooted again,
>> and it took over 7 minutes, see attached screenshot.
> 
> Yikes, that's way too long. Can you say what VPS it is?

It’s with arpnetworks.com, their default “small" VPS. I don’t
really know more; here’s some dmesg output that might be relevant,
happy to provide more info.

[    0.000000] DMI: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 
Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
[    0.000000] Hypervisor detected: KVM
[    0.000000] kvm-clock: Using msrs 4b564d01 and 4b564d00
[    0.000000] kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 2a782001, primary cpu clock
[    0.000000] kvm-clock: using sched offset of 1160634602574609 cycles
[    0.000002] clocksource: kvm-clock: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 
0x1cd42e4dffb, max_idle_ns: 881590591483 ns
[    0.000004] tsc: Detected 3066.774 MHz processor