Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 47858
Extreme wait without feedback
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:34:33 EDT
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.
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