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On Tue, Dec 3, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Slawek Kaplonski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 01:53:04PM +0000, Sean Mooney wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 3:29 PM Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Things are great! Surprise! I just wanted to let everyone know. Later!
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > Now that you've been tricked, on Halloween no less, I'm here to tell you
> > > that things suck right now. This is your periodic digest of issues. Grab
> > > some fun-sized candy bars and read on.
> > >
> > > I think right now we have three major issues.
> > >
> > > 1. http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/index.html#1763070
> > >
> > > This has resurfaced and I'm not sure why, nor do I think we ever had a
> > > great handle on what is causing this or how to work around it so if
> > > anyone has new ideas please chip in.
> > the only theory i have on that is in the absense of any other indication
> > we could be running out of entorpy in the vm which can lead to https
> > connections failing. we might want to consider enabling the virtio
> > random number generator in
> > the gate vms.
> > https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/etc/metadefs/compute-libvirt-image.json#L54-L59
> > this need to be enabled in the flavours too but low entroy can cass
> > ssl connection to fail
> > https://major.io/2007/07/01/check-available-entropy-in-linux/
> 
> You may be right with lack of entropy is culprit in some issues. E.g. 
> here:
> https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/build/edcf837457a741abb752693723319b15/log/controller/logs/tempest_log.txt.gz#14652
> it took 120 seconds to Initialize random number generator on guest VM 
> and
> because of that network wasn't configured properly and test failed.
> 

https://review.opendev.org/#/c/697194/ is a first pass attempt at implementing the virtio rng device. How do we verify it is actually working?

Clark