Bugzilla – Bug 149030
Yast hangs the first time add/remove software is started
Last modified: 2006-03-27 13:46:34 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.
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?
Created attachment 67042 [details] YaST2 log files
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.
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.
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...
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?
We have a timeout now for 10.1.