Entropy error blocks lang/python38 installation

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

I've been trying to install lang/python38, critically important for further progress building and installing packages from pkgsrc

System is NetBSD-9.99.82 amd64.

Build goes through and most of the way through installation, but ends with a green console message

[ 386.3532035] entropy: pid 24617 (python) blocking due to lack of entropy

This time, I tried again (after Ctrl-C and "make install"), got the same message but with different numbers.

This is an awful strange message about failing to install a package.

End of build log file was

/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/ascii.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/has_key.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/panel.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/curses/textpad.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/curses
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/pydoc_data/__init__.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/pydoc_data
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/pydoc_data/_pydoc.css /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/pydoc_data
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/pydoc_data
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 `cat pybuilddir.txt`/_sysconfigdata_netbsd9.py  /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8;  /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./LICENSE /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/LICENSE.txt
if test -d /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/distutils/tests; then  /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 ./Modules/xxmodule.c  /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/distutils/tests ;  fi
PYTHONPATH=/pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/Python-3.8.10  ./python -E -Wi /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8/compileall.py  -j0 -d /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8 -f  -x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data'  /pkgsrc/lang/python38/work10.amd64/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.8


On other computer, system crashes and reboots (dirty, so I have to fsck_ffs after reboot) at about this point.

What does this entropy error message mean, and is there anything I can do except wait some months, update the system, and try again?

Inability to build python38 is a bone in the throat, so much depends on Python.  I am at an impasse on NetBSD.

Tom