Bug 157418

Summary:	Installation fails on a slow link
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Forgotten User mbQyAD5r4K <forgotten_mbQyAD5r4K>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Marius Tomaschewski <mt>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Beta 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	y2log

Description Forgotten User mbQyAD5r4K 2006-03-11 12:23:12 UTC

I was doing installation of Beta6 as follows: CD1 from real CD media, CD2 from locally loopback-mounted iso image and CD3 over HTTP from a remote server. As the HTTP server is far far away the downloading of OpenOffice.org (98MB) from that server probably timed out or crashed or whatnot after cca 15MB. Retried -> same result. In the install phase that wasn't a big problem I simply selected "Skip package" and let it be.

Later in the Network configuration phase (still during installation) I was asked to install smpppd or somesuch (why, btw? no modems here, just a bunch of ethernet cards). So far so good, it was correctly installed from CD media but then the installer realised it was still missing OpenOffice.org and bagun downloading it again. While observing the file in /var/adm/... I realised it disappeared again after some 17MB. 

Now the real problem: I couldn't continue the installation. The dialog box w.r.t. "Downloading OOo..." was still there, no separate wget/curl/... process to kill (just the do-it-all y2base), Abort button offered aborting the whole installation, not only abortion of the download. Simply - no way out. YaST apparently couldn't download the file and I apparently wasn't allowed to cancel its effort.

Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2006-03-11 12:31:06 UTC

please attach the y2logs.

Comment 2 Forgotten User mbQyAD5r4K 2006-03-11 12:37:43 UTC

Created attachment 72413 [details]
y2log

Attached is y2log - hope it's of any use for you.

Comment 3 dsdf sdsd 2006-03-11 14:23:20 UTC

Just to put more fuel on the fire. I've had the same issue with my two machines. It's just like it can't download the whole package before it times out. If I try and try again it can work after a while. Just like that time it was able to download the full package before timing out.

/dang

Comment 4 Michael Gross 2006-03-13 11:32:30 UTC

So the problem is that `abort' cancels the whole installation instead of a single package.

Comment 6 Forgotten User mbQyAD5r4K 2006-03-13 11:43:08 UTC

That's only part of the problem. The other parts are:
- Download needlessly fails for huge files. They were coming, just too slow.
- After the download timeout in the Network config dialog the download hasn't started again nor yast told me there was a problem. It was just sitting there waiting for a miracle.
- At that point the "abort this package only" would have come handy, indeed.

Comment 7 Lukas Ocilka 2006-03-17 12:17:25 UTC

The problem seems to have an obvious reason:

<3> linux(3828) [media] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):621 curl error: 28: Operation timed out with 17959310 out of 104272842 bytes received
<3> linux(3828) [media] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):621 curl error: 28: Operation timed out with 18233216 out of 104272842 bytes received
<3> linux(3828) [wfm] Package.cc(PkgCommit):1742 Pkg::Commit has failed

Comment 8 Marius Tomaschewski 2006-03-17 12:30:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156969 ***