Description of problem: Package updater window become unresponsive very often which makes tracking of the update progress impossible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: When there is a lot of updates available Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run package updater 2. Move on to other windows 3. Come back to package updater window Actual results: It does not respond (see attached screenshot) Expected results: Progress of update Additional info: Is it running with a low priority? I have noticed the same behaviour in two notebooks.
Created attachment 291487 [details] screenshot of unresponsive package updater windows
This is because we don't run with threads (because threads + rpmdb access has some significant downsides and risks of corruption). gnome-packagekit in Fedora 9 works around this differently. Not relaly going to make any pirut changes at this point for it