How to configure sources of randomness for Linux on z

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Commands fail or hang due to lack of entropy
  • strace shows appliction stall reading /dev/random

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on IBM System-z
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on IBM System-z
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on IBM System-z
  • Linux on z
  • s390x architecture

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