Re: Linux 5.3-rc8

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 07:56:35AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Hmm, I'm not seeing this on a Dell XPS 13 (model 9380) using a Debian
> Bullseye (Testing) running a rc4+ kernel.
> 
> This could be because Debian is simply doing more I/O; or it could be
> because I don't have some package installed which is trying to reading
> from /dev/random or calling getrandom(2).  Previously, Fedora ran into
> blocking issues because of some FIPS compliance patches to some
> userspace daemons.  So it's going to be very user space dependent and
> package dependent.

Btw, I've been seeing this issue on debian testing with an XFS root
file system ever since the blocking random changes went in.  There
are a few reports (not from me) in the BTS since.  I ended up just
giving up on gdm and using lightdm instead as it was clearly related
to that.