Description of problem: Seen in: https://beaker-devel.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/recipes/25435 on dev-rx1620-01.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com (ia64). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 25.6.git.7.f2d3ef15a How reproducible: unsure Steps to Reproduce: 1. try installing RHEL4(?) Actual results: Installation exceeds 3 hour watchdog limit. A large portion of the time is spent on yum writing its progress bar (made up of hash characters) as it loads the beaker-tasks repodata, which has upwards of 18,000 packages in it. Expected results: Installation should succeed. Ideally no time wasted printing progress bars. Additional info: I thought this should have been fixed by bug 765717 but maybe it's a slightly different problem.
It is probably something specific to this host, and/or conserver was being particularly slow at that time. It has always printed the hashes on RHEL4, and we see it on other arches/machines as well, but normally it can print them all within a few minutes, it doesn't take several hours.
RHEL4 is pretty close to dead so we could just consider this WONTFIX as well.
On the very old yum we use on RHEL4, I noticed that -d 1 (that is, "debug level = 1" as opposed to the default of 2) produces reasonable output. It looks like this interactively: # yum -d 1 install python-uuid Transaction Listing: Install: python-uuid.noarch 0:1.30-3.el4bkr - beaker-harness Total download size: 14 k Is this ok [y/N]: You still get pretty reasonable looking error output: # yum -d 1 install python-uuidasdf No Match for argument: python-uuidasdf although I guess there is a chance that it would mask some potentially useful debugging information.
https://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/beaker/+/6286
This bug was fixed on the release-25 branch, but the next release will be Beaker 26.0.
Beaker 26.0 has been released.