installation fails

Phil Dobbin bukowskiscat at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 11:42:56 UTC 2012


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Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:33:34 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> 
>> This behaviour is clearly a bug. Not because it takes so long time,
>> but because the user isn't informed and waits speculating about what
>> went wrong and when to push the reset-button.
> 
> http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/anaconda
> 
> Would be easy to submit a bug report or RFE.
> 
> There's one bug report already that complains about a missing Estimated
> Time value, but I could not find a ticket specifically covering the final
> Verification step of all installed packages.
> 
> The progress bar calculation would need to become very elegant, however,
> to not be degraded to Windows style installers, where it jumps back to 0%,
> then moves to 100% again, only to restart from 0% an unknown number of
> times. That may be good as a sign of life, but it's not really helpful as
> a progress status update.

I started using Fedora starting with Constantine & the hang always seems
to happen at 'selinux-policy-targeted' which is understandable when
using preupgrade but it happens also on a clean install which I did from
15 -> 16.

It's usually around twenty minutes or so.

Cheers,

  Phil...

- -- 
currently (ab)using
CentOS 6.2, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise

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