Snap create-key timeouts

snapd
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We have started getting an error on the test ran on zesty during the 2.24 SRU validation, the create-key test, which exercise the snap create-key command reaches the kill timeout and throws an error http://paste.ubuntu.com/24425481/ I’ve tried with the previous snapd version, 2.23.6+17.04.1 currently available in the archive, and it fails too.

This happens also with ubuntu-core images built from edge, this is the strace -f output from a zesty run http://paste.ubuntu.com/24425544/ and this is the ps afx output (from another session) http://paste.ubuntu.com/24425624/

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I am seeing similar issues with my PR to add CI support for debian. However I can reproduce this with the snapd version (2.23.6) from the archive on my 16.04 desktop too.

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Problem in my case was missing entropy. Adding https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/3156/commits/1ea78835c4aebd911a5702d3d352c3f5e9a0fa7a to my PR helps to get the key generation done faster which took more than 10min in my case.

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Same here, thanks to @pedronis for pointing out the right solution :slight_smile: