Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:27:04AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> (If it appears to hang for you in the "setting up Kerberos" step, you
>> might need more entropy/wait a while. That problem appears to be
>> limited to some virtual machine setups, but the specifics are not
>> clear.)
>
> That's one of those "move your mouse" or "type randomly your keyboard"
> to generate more entropy for the installation setup?
Right.
Whether this message can show up will depend on how the krb5 was built
(and how new it is). krb5 > 1.15 has support for getrandom(), so on
most Linux distros, if the machine has successfully ever created 256
bits of entropy, it won't block. On other platforms, use of
/dev/urandom requires a build flag.
Thanks,
--Robbie
