[issue26839] Python 3.5 running on Linux kernel 3.17+ can block at startup or on importing the random module on getrandom()

Tue Jun 7 15:00:53 EDT 2016

Donald Stufft added the comment:

> specifically, early in the boot process, although not I think just on the first boot of a system; Debian at least by default does not attempt to preserve its entropy pool across a reboot.)

Look at /etc/init.d/urandom in the initscripts package in Jessie (https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/sysvinit.git/tree/debian/src/initscripts/etc/init.d/urandom).

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