[OTR-users] Private key generation hangs indefinitely on Ubuntu 13.10

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Chris Ballinger wrote:

> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1) Install Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit in VMware Fusion 5.0.3 w/ VMware Tools for Linux on Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks)
> 2) Install Pidgin 2.10.7 and pidgin-otr 4.0.0 through Ubuntu Software Center
> 3) Attempt to generate a private key for any account
> 
> It looks like this is a long standing bug in Debian/Ubuntu that may be related to libgcrypt's key generation routines getting
> blocked on reads from /dev/random or /dev/urandom.

Look more simply that you VM does not get enough entropy from the host
OS.

Paul