# Logstash-plugin-install hangs forever

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-plugin-install-hangs-forever/92144>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 6, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-plugin-install-hangs-forever/92144 "2017-07-06T16:44:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tcouto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@tcouto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tcouto)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-plugin-install-hangs-forever/92144/1 "2017-07-06T16:44:59Z")

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Well at least 12 hours...

I know there are other topics very similar to this, but since they're closed I suppose I need to open a new one. From [Logstash install plugin extremely slow?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-install-plugin-extremely-slow/50642) I learned that logstash-plugin-install can take a long time due to a lack of entropy.

My question is, why do we need entropy at all? I don't see this issue with other package managers like yum, apt-get, or pip. Maybe I'm missing something fundamental? I don't understand why fetching files requires randomness.

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**Author:** ![tcouto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@tcouto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tcouto)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-plugin-install-hangs-forever/92144/2 "2017-07-06T23:37:10Z")

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Man, I got wildly off course and spent way too much time with this one. Turned out to be a networking issue; some of my boxes are unable to reach [https://rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org). All is not lost though; I learned a bit about `/dev/random` and Ruby. Mabye `logstash-plugin install` can have a connection timeout?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-plugin-install-hangs-forever/92144/3 "2017-08-03T23:37:25Z")

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