On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:36:18 -0300 Lisandro =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maxy (KDE/sddm maintainer) just suggested me to use haveged to workaround the > issue. > > From the Qt/sddm code this would certainly not affect security, as the problem > lies in a hash structure used in the code. I can not vouch for other stuff in > the machine. > > I have not seen this bug so far, but if any of you can still reproduce it you > might want to give this a try. > > Cheers, Lisandro. > > -- > If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women > you've got in the house. > Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac" > > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ > http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
I've experienced it just today while installing Buster on an old Kentsfield system, so it's still present on kernel 4.16. I have used haveged to just forget about it, more entropy won't hurt when it's fixed. Cheers. Pedro
