Description of problem: When I start system-config-lvm it keeps displaying the "Reloading LVM. Please wait." window and it'll never stop. It just hangs. I start it through over SSH with X11 forwarding. Since I don't have local access to the machine, I don't know if this is related to it or not. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-lvm-1.1.5-1.0.el5_4.1 How reproducible: Just start it up over SSH with X11 forwarding (unsure if the last part is required or not) Actual results: Waiting.. a lot of waiting.. Expected results: That it actually finishes reloading LVM within an acceptable time limit.
A traceback when I break it with ctrl+c: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/system-config-lvm", line 173, in ? runFullGUI() File "/usr/sbin/system-config-lvm", line 158, in runFullGUI blvm = baselvm(glade_xml, app) File "/usr/sbin/system-config-lvm", line 108, in __init__ self.volume_tab_view = Volume_Tab_View(glade_xml, self.lvmm, self.main_win) File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/Volume_Tab_View.py", line 133, in __init__ self.prepare_tree() File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/Volume_Tab_View.py", line 214, in prepare_tree self.model_factory.reload() File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/lvm_model.py", line 154, in reload self.__block_device_model = BlockDeviceModel() File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/BlockDeviceModel.py", line 18, in __init__ for devname in fd.getDeviceNames(): File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/fdisk_wrapper.py", line 24, in getDeviceNames res = execWithCapture(SFDISK, [SFDISK, '-s']) File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/execute.py", line 12, in execWithCapture return execWithCaptureErrorStatus(bin, args)[0] File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/execute.py", line 23, in execWithCaptureErrorStatus return _execWithCaptureErrorStatus(BASH_PATH, [BASH_PATH, '-c', command]) File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/execute.py", line 229, in _execWithCaptureErrorStatus gtk.main_iteration() KeyboardInterrupt
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If your network connection is slow then it is possible then this is duplicate of #502042 - feel free to test the patch; that patch will be part of next update.
My network connection with the server is indeed slow. Removing the while loop, as suggested as a possible solution in bug report #502042, indeed solved my problem. It's not perfect but it'll do for now. The rest of the screen is still very slow (5-6 seconds delay before something happens) but I can live with that.
Thank you for response. It is possible that screen is very slow but I can't do much more with technologies used for GUI. If you will find something other what will be extremely slow then let me know and I will try to fix it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 502042 ***