Re: pkgsrc build hang of python38

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 21:50:35 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> python38 hangs during build. I tried several times, it hangs in
> exactly the same place again. I don't know of course where the issue
> comes from, since all is new now :)

I vaguely remember running into something like this b/c the system was
out of randomness.  I don't remember if there should be something
obvious in dmesg when that happens, I think it should.  As a
workaround:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2020/05/01/msg038495.html

| you can fool it into thinking there is more entropy by running
|
|   dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/random bs=32 count=1
|   sysctl -w kern.entropy.consolidate=1
|
| as root.  The kernel will assume that any data written by root to
| /dev/u?random have full entropy

-uwe