Bug 1270290

Summary: Installation on VM takes 40 minutes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Martin Kolman <mkolman>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Alexander Todorov 2015-10-09 14:12:59 UTC
Description of problem:

I'm provisioning a KVM guest with a Rawhide snapshot and it took 40 minutes to complete. The source is HTTP on the local-ish network, not across the Internet. 

In particular I've noticed that post install configuration is unusually long:

16:36 - Anaconda starts formatting disks
16:39 - already installing first packages
16:50 - doing post install configuration
17:00 - installing boot loader
17:01 - generating initramfs
17:05 - finished


Post install configuration (no ks.cfg provided) and initramfs generation appears unusually long. Timestamps are local, they will differ from what's in the logs.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
24.3-1

Comment 1 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-09 14:14:08 UTC
Created attachment 1081352 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 2 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-09 14:14:23 UTC
Created attachment 1081353 [details]
journal.log

Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-09 14:14:32 UTC
Created attachment 1081354 [details]
packaging.log

Comment 4 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-09 14:14:43 UTC
Created attachment 1081355 [details]
program.log

Comment 5 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-09 14:14:53 UTC
Created attachment 1081356 [details]
syslog

Comment 6 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-09 14:17:37 UTC
14:34:20,839 INFO anaconda: Starting package installation process
14:34:48,388 INFO anaconda: Preparing transaction from installation source
14:39:02,072 INFO anaconda: Performing post-installation setup tasks

^^^^^ vvvvvv - quite a few minutes between


14:56:46,416 INFO anaconda: Installing boot loader
14:57:20,165 INFO anaconda: Installing boot loader -- DONE

14:57:20,168 INFO anaconda: Performing post-installation setup tasks
14:57:20,204 INFO anaconda: Performing post-installation setup tasks -- DONE

^^^^ same string repeats previously in the log, I have no idea what it is.


14:57:20,472 INFO anaconda: Configuring installed system
14:57:23,458 INFO anaconda: Configuring installed system -- DONE

14:57:24,311 INFO anaconda: Generating initramfs
15:01:31,091 INFO anaconda: Generating initramfs -- DONE

^^^^^ 4 minutes

Comment 7 Martin Kolman 2015-10-09 14:37:06 UTC
Yeah, this is definitely bad. We should really either find out why it is taking so long & make it faster (provided the slowdown is caused by our code) or at least provide some sort of feedback - possibly like DFN does:

Performing post-installation setup tasks, 93% done

Comment 8 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 15:51:01 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

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