haveged.service has this line in it
“ConditionKernelVersion=<5.6” this stops any kernel > 5.6 being used.
Have raised an issue at
haveged.service has this line in it
“ConditionKernelVersion=<5.6” this stops any kernel > 5.6 being used.
Have raised an issue at
You don’t need it with kernels above 5.4 > 5.6, as is stated on their github:
And also:
With this commit, the overall entropy pool size has been reduced to 256 instead of 4096 like it was before:
cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize
256
and
cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
256
Plus, for better understanding:
Please create an issue.
EDIT: There’s already an existing issue.
haveged
should probably be an optional dependency like it is for pacman
.
Done, but the same point was raised 5 months ago.
Not much point to make it optional as systemd stops it starting if your are running a kernel that is newer than 5.6.
On the other hand: not much point in requiring the installation of a package if it’s not needed (on systems using kernels > 5.6
)…