Bug 149030

Summary:	Yast hangs the first time add/remove software is started
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Hans Meier <ma2412ma>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	YaST2 log files Log files when YaST is hanging

Description Hans Meier 2006-02-08 11:11:52 UTC

When I execute add/remove software from Yast for the first time of a session, it always hangs during updating the various sources (I have SUSE supplementary KDE, Packman and Java sources set to automatically update). I have to go into a shell, su and kill the 2 processes (add/remove and Yast control center) manually, which is really very annoying.

Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2006-02-08 11:27:16 UTC

Please attach the y2logs (/var/log/YaST2/*)

What does   ps aux   say about the hanging processes? Is your CPU idle or busy when YaST hangs?

Do you see the problem also if you only use _one_ installation source?

Comment 2 Hans Meier 2006-02-08 16:34:01 UTC

Created attachment 67042 [details]
YaST2 log files

Comment 3 Hans Meier 2006-02-08 16:35:51 UTC

Logs are attached.

ps aux says that the CPU is idle.

I haven't tried that, because it does not _always_ hang at the first startup, but very often. I hope the attached log files provide enough info.

Comment 4 Hans Meier 2006-02-09 16:01:56 UTC

Created attachment 67326 [details]
Log files when YaST is hanging

I've attached the directory /var/log/YaST2/ that I've copied when YaST was hanging.

Comment 5 Jiri Srain 2006-02-15 21:24:14 UTC

Does it hang for a long time and then continues, or does it hang forever?

According to log, it hangs while doesnloading the source metadata from the FTP server, which may take some time...

Comment 6 Hans Meier 2006-02-17 08:19:23 UTC

Once I was waiting for over half an hour, then I killed the processes, restarted Yast again and it immediately worked.

Is it possible to define some kind of timeout in Yast that aborts/retries/shows a dialog box after a certain amount of time (e.g. 15-30 seconds) has ellapsed?

Comment 7 Stanislav Visnovsky 2006-03-27 13:46:34 UTC

We have a timeout now for 10.1.