Bug 52214

Summary:	Anaconda could use some more progress bars
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pekka Pietikäinen <pp>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Pekka Pietikäinen 2001-08-21 18:59:24 UTC

There are still a few operations in anaconda, which take minutes to
complete that only display a dialog in the center of the screen, with no
progress  bar, making it look like the installer has hung. Checking
dependancies when doing upgrades is one of these.

For 8.0 a progress bar certainly would be nice for these, for 7.2 maybe a
"this may take a few minutes" text could be added (assuming the dialog is
not in the screenshots for the manual)

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-08-24 19:28:14 UTC

We will revisit this request next development cycle.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-01-15 20:29:36 UTC

*** Bug 54641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-26 17:44:04 UTC

Deferring to future release.

Comment 4 Jay R. Ashworth, http://baylink.pitas.com 2002-10-04 05:38:52 UTC

In addition to needing more thermometers, it would be nice if certain error 
dialogs had options other than "Ok; I give up; go ahead and crash".

Sometimes, the installer *can* make judgement calls about what's an acceptable 
thing to have to fix later.

Notably, anaconda in 7.3 does this on packages that can't be opened (no "Skip" 
button), lack of free space on a partition (you can clear some space on Alt-F2, 
but it has to completely re-do the dependency table -- which is depressing on a 
P266 laptop), and the bug I'm about to file: can't unmount disk 2: busy.

In general, anaconda seems to be poor at dealing with unexpected behavior 
during the install; "what could go wrong here" wasn't asked enough.  More in 
the other bug report.

Which I'll file tomorrow; the 17 hours it's cost me came out of sleep.


Zzzzzz.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:06 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.