[SOLVED] On pacman, haveged and RPi (A)

by **cedricmc** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:55 pm

Hi there,

due to the recent update of GnuPG, ArchGods recommended to use haveged prior renewing pacman's keyring. I have tried to enable the haveged daemon on my RPi (A) but, when I do so, I get the following error message:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# systemctl start haveged
Failed to start haveged.service: Connection timed out')
Is haveged necessary/mandatory? If yes, how can I solve this problem? If no, should I use an alternative like rng-tools or simply don't bother?

Thx!

by **cedricmc** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:26 am

*bump

by **pepedog** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:43 am

I thought haveged was installed an enabled default, sshd appreciates it on first run

by **WarheadsSE** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 3:47 pm

Perhaps examine the journal for what actually happened ...

by **cedricmc** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:13 am

Hi there,

soz for my quite late reply. I just updated my RPi after the clean install of January and now haveged seems to work just fine. Since the update took care of 65 packages, I can't say if the problem was caused by haveged itself or some other package. Many system packages were updated and the previous versions were from a clean install so, I guess, haveged was not to blame. Anyway, now it works.

@pepedog: Haveged was not installed by default.

update: @pepedog: Haveged was indeed installed by default. I just checked that in fact I reinstalled it at the time.