Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Using F-6.92 install DVD How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go through the installation, accepting the default package list 2. When the "Checking dependencies in packages selected for installation..." dialog pops up, the system goes to 100% CPU usage and the GUI becomes unresponsive for several (not sure exactly how long, but approximately 5) minutes. 3. After this wait, the installation works as it should Actual results: No feedback indicating that this may take a very long time. Expected results: Either completing this step more quickly, or some text/other indication that this stage of the process may take a while. Additional info: This is on a 1.7ghz Pentium-M laptop with 512mb of ram. According to free, the free ram never went below ~200mb. While the GUI was unresponsive, I was able to switch between VTs and enter some basic commands (top, ps, free) on the provided command line. Other than selecting a specific partion and installation location for grub (/dev/sda1 rather than /dev/sda), all other installation options were left at their defaults.
The progress bar doesn't update properly, but dependency solving is working fine. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232904 ***
I have encountered the same problem. With a custom Desktop+Devel installation (Gnome+Xfce+Some text utils) the depsolving takes 14minutes. I can switch to some VT, doing a "top" and seeing anaconda eating between 97% and 100% CPU, but switching back to the GUI installer display a buggy screen with one empty white window. The display refresh takes 6 minutes to show back the normal installer. I think this should be fixed because some user can think the installer has frozen. I was running the installer on a Celeron 2,93Ghz, 512RAM, with a 160go SATA2 HardDrive. This step takes aproximately less than 1 minute using FC5 and 14 minutes using Fedora7. I will not imagine how slow it would be on a 4 years old computer (or more).