RNG daemon takes too long ot shutdown

[TomasHnyk]

Shutdown of my computer takes too long. I started to investigate and I always wait about 5 seconds with"

Stopping Hardware RNG entropy gatherer daemon: rngd.

It does not stop by itself, so after 5 seconds, it goes down and shutdown continues.

This is in lenovo W530 on Ubuntu 14.04 (ps shows:

root 2176 0.2 0.0 8964 340 ? Ss 12:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/rngd -r /dev/hwrng )

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Alright, changin the line

  if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
            --startas ${DAEMON} --retry 10 --name ${NAME} \

to

if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
            --startas ${DAEMON} --retry 1 --name ${NAME} \

in /etc/inid.d/rng-tools speeds things up considerably (to about one second). Setting --retry to 0 causes to falsely output that service was not not runninng (in fact it was and was killed), removing the --retry option causes that rngd is not stopped at all.

Any idea why that --retry 10 is there at all?

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

This no longer applies under systemd.