Entropy for pacman-key --init

Anyone having problems getting pacman-key --init to work? When I do it it just sits at Generating pacman keychain master key, I believe waiting for entropy.

I've tried hitting keys until I was very bored. I've done an ls of the entire root tree, all those things suggested in the ArchLinux wiki. Still nothing...

Anyone else had this problem? How'd you get around it?

I got this even on my i7
You don't have to do the keys
What you can do in the other terminal is install mlocate and run updatedb

Either you continue to hit the keys for hours, or you follow the advice here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa ... he_keyring

I ran multiple iterations of ls -R /, like this
ls -R / && ls -R / && ls -R / && ls -R / && ls -R / (I don't remember the required number of times)

Hi, thanks for the comments. I tried mlocate but that didn't appear to help. What did help was this:

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pacman -S haveged
haveged -w 1024
pacman-key --init
pkill haveged
pacman -Rs haveged


It would be nice of pacman to give some hint on why it (appears to) freeze on --init. That would spare a lot of support questions.