NetBeans and JDK9

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Oct 30 15:43:07 UTC 2015


On 10/30/2015 12:25 PM, Brian Doherty wrote:
> Are you running on linux? If so, try adding this to the command line:
> 
> -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom
> 
> This prevents the JDK from using /dev/random, which is waiting for
> 'environmental noise' to seen the entropy pool used to generate
> secure random numbers.

Thanks very much for the tip, but that's unfortunately not it.
Good tip, though.

This is reproducible across Red Hat/x86 and Debian/AArch64, by
the way.

Andrew.



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