installation fails

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:05:02 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:

> On 07/29/2012 05:38 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > From my point of view: I saw this rather long final installation phase 
> > too (I guess about 15 min). Not only in F17 but in F16 too, and I 
> > don't know what exactly happens during this time. 
>
> It is time spent (mostly) running the %postinstall scrips for each of 
> the packages installed during the main phase.  You can switch to vt2 and 
> run top in the shell and watch the madness.

It's not %post. 

The rather new final step is the RPM "Verification" of installed packages
you can also observe when using Yum. In Anaconda, the progress bar is at
99%/100% already and doesn't move anymore because the time this step takes
is unaccounted for.

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