Comment 24 for bug 1647204

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 1647204] Re: 1.8.0-2 FTBFS in zesty 17.04

On Jan 13, 2017, at 09:26 PM, dkg wrote:

>a hang during key generation is often due to lack of entropy on the
>system. Can you ensure that the system isn't entropy-starved somehow?

Oh, oh. I wonder if you're getting bitten by PEP 524

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0524/

I don't believe this was back ported to Python 3.5 or 2.7 though.