Description of problem: After installing a system from the current "rawhide" tree, the boot procedure always hangs at launching sshd when the latter tries to create the SSH2 DSA key. The last message reads: "Generating SSH2 DSA host key:" The system will be stuck at this point unless the user enters ctrl-c which will cause this step to be aborted ("[FAILED]"). Hereafter, the system boots up as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openssh-server-5.2p1-17.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Restart system. Actual results: System hangs at step "Generating SSH2 DSA host key:". Expected results: SSH2 DSA host key gets created for once and for all. Additional info: - SELinux mode is "permissive". - F11 used to behave correctly in this respect. - http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4cc8ec74-04a2-4b0c-88c3-6dce6d7b1d31 - Relevant segment from /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd reads: if [ ! -s $DSA_KEY ]; then echo -n $"Generating SSH2 DSA host key: " if $KEYGEN -q -t dsa -f $DSA_KEY -C '' -N '' >&/dev/null; then chmod 600 $DSA_KEY chmod 644 $DSA_KEY.pub if [ -x /sbin/restorecon ]; then /sbin/restorecon $DSA_KEY.pub fi success $"DSA key generation" echo else failure $"DSA key generation" echo exit 1 fi fi
I cannot reproduce it, is there any other condition (memory, cpu,... ) which cause it?
Sorry for not having reported yet that after a recent "rawhide" install from scratch on said IBM ThinkPad T23, the issue did not occur anymore.
Repaired in F12 and F13 as well.