Bug 474460

Summary:	install looks like it hangs at the end
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ray Todd Stevens <raytodd>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	anaconda-maint-list
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Description Ray Todd Stevens 2008-12-03 22:05:15 UTC

Description of problem:

This install process is getting better as time goes along, but there is this issue.   When installing there is a progress bar for most of the process of installing the rpms.   But when this process ends there is a new process that begins.   It says it can take a few minutes (10-15 in my experience so far) and it then has a little bar that wags back and forth like a knight rider bar.   For something that really only takes a FEW minutes this might be OK but this seems to take long enough that I was wondering if it was hung for quite a while before it completed.

This is definitely going to confuse people some type of a real progress bar, or a realistic time frame message is needed here.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2008-12-03 22:10:28 UTC

Are you talking about the progress bar on upgrades that says "Finishing upgrade process.  This may take a few moments..." ?

Comment 2 Ray Todd Stevens 2008-12-03 22:17:49 UTC

I thought that it said a few minutes, but either way when 10-15 minutes is the actual wait time this is kind of an issue.   But yes that is the part I am talking about.

Comment 3 Ray Todd Stevens 2008-12-03 22:32:52 UTC

OK we were both wrong it says "a while"

Comment 4 Ray Todd Stevens 2008-12-03 22:45:25 UTC

I just ran an upgrade on a machine with a minimal of software installed and lots of processor and memory (one of our routers).   This section took just under 9 minute.

I also cycled through the text screens while it was going and didn't see any messages so I am not sure what is causing the slowdown.

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2008-12-04 20:11:00 UTC

The progress bar you're seeing runs during package cleanups on upgrade.  Every movement of the bar corresponds to another package running its %uninst script.  We can never tell how long this is going to take, because scripts could take an arbitrary amount of time.  With how anaconda's set up right now, we don't even know how many packages need to be cleaned up.

I think this could be better handled by adapting anaconda to use yum's callback instead of our own, and we already have a bug tracking wanting to do that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 452724 ***