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Re: Entropy error blocks lang/python38 installation



At Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:18:02 +0200, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: Entropy error blocks lang/python38 installation
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:10:34AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 06:13:23AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 03:42:35AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > > > I believe I must apply the fix/workaround every time.
> > >
> > > The entropy state gets stored on shutdown and reloaded on next boot.
> > > Fixing it once is enough.
> >
> > ...assuming that people actually use shutdown and don't just reboot.
>
> Kinda - but the instructions in the man page are quite explicit and
> ask you to save the entropy state at least once manually, which should
> avoid the blocking behaviour in all cases.

That's not an acceptable regression.

Previously no manual operations were ever necessary -- the blocking was
never permanent.

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