On Wednesday 25 September 2019 13:39:04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:35:39PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Buster runs fine, IF it can find its keyboard and mouse. But ssh > > doesn't want to run until the random number generator is seeded, and > > without a keyboard, it doesn't get seeded. It will sit there and > > answer a ping for half an hour, but that doesn't seed it so life can > > go on. So you take the drive to another machine, ask some questions > > on the lists and maybe fix it, and maybe not... > > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-informat >ion.en.html#entropy-starvation > This looks like a printout should be in hand by the time the first reboot is done.
It also tells me that not near enough debugging went into pre-release testing, as this is stuff that should have been found and fixed before the official release. I bailed out on fedora at about f2, tired to being an unpaid lab rat, always down with a tummy ache or 19. Now, I assume from lack of paid people, debian is doing the same. But the definition of stable seems more and more loosely defined in all camps as everyone scrambles to stay current with Pottering who runs at his own speed with little consideration for some who actually want to get /their/ job done. > https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation Neither of these links adresses the 2 main problems, wrong networking setup after the first reboot (see ip r) if you are running a static network defined in each machines /etc/host files, and only fixable by removing avahi-daemon and dhcpdc, else any routes you assign are overridden by 169.254 addesses and you can't get out of your local net block. > There is no simple fix for this one, I'm afraid. If you try one or > more of the suggestions from the wiki, let us know which one(s) and > how well they worked for you. That might help other people in the > future. But why do such reports NOT result in a newer installer that fixes them? Linux in general is widely famous for fixing serious bugs in very short order, and IMO these (no network, no keyboard/mouse) are serious bugs. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
