Bug 47858

Summary:	Extreme wait without feedback
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Stephen John Smoogen <smooge>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Stephen John Smoogen 2001-07-08 01:58:05 UTC

Description of Problem:

I did an everything install on my 200Mhz MMX box today. It has 128M and a 6 
gig hard-drive. After the install had finished writing partitions, but 
before it began the Pre-Install counter.. the machine sat for 4 minutes not 
showing any status change. Looking at ps auxww showed anaconda process 
running at 30% cpu but nothing else taking up much.

How Reproducible:
reproduced 3 times.

I think that if this an ext3 issue or a package finding issue that we 
should display at least a small screen saying 

"Processing" 

that fades or blinks in and out so that the user doesnt think the 
machine/install hard locked.

Comment 1 Stephen John Smoogen 2001-08-20 00:13:39 UTC

The RC1 install looks much better.
 All the waits except one were accompanied with a popup telling me what was
going on. The one that didnt have a pop-up seems to have been package selection
or soemthing. I couldnt see anything on ALT-F1{..F6} to tell me what was going
on. However.. the install didnt take anywhere as long as Beta1 did

Thanks