I've seen a couple reports of the install hanging on the "generating secret key" step. All these reports seem to be windows. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Installation_of_V_1.18.2_stopps_while_creating_"secret_key"
Things that need to be determined:
*Is it really hanging, or does it just take a long time to generate "real" randomness. How "long" is a long time
*How common an occurrence is this. Is it just some people, or is it all windows users and we just don't notice because very few of us use windows.
If its really hanging, we should figure out why. If its just taking a really long time, we should figure out if that time is acceptable amount (Obviously, If it takes an hour to generate the secret key, that's not acceptable )
If its going to take such a long time, we should really have some sort of warning to users.
Version: 1.20.x
Severity: normal
OS: Windows Server 2003
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Installation_of_V_1.18.2_stopps_while_creating_%22secret_key%22
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44142
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55364