Comment 9 for bug 269188

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Jordan Erickson (lns) wrote :

Please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453704#c9 - regarding the use of /dev/random and entropy running out, causing all other entropy-consuming applications (such as other instances of FF3 creating and/or loading profiles) to hang and wait for entropy to build back up - which is presumably minimal on LTSP servers, as there is usually no local input events, as well as presumably little/no random input from LTSP clients (other than possibly network related, which I have been told is of minimal influence to gathering entropy compared to local input events).

There is a proposed workaround I have that I'll be testing tomorrow. I'll post my results.