Mageia 4 - update delay

[shimi]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I tried running ps -A before clicking, a few times during the 4 minute
> wait and after the GUI started. I then used diff to compare. The only
> change I found during the wait was an additional kworker/2:0 (there
> were already over 20 kworker processes running). Could this be
> significant? I haven't yet run strace as you suggested.
>
>
Highly doubt it. kworker are kernel threads... not userspace programs...


> When the GUI started, I found a MageiaUpdate process and an additional
> drakrpm-update process (for a total of 2). I assume the first one is
> responsible for the periodic check if new updates are available.
>
>
So it seems that the process is indeed not launched for the 4 minutes. My
next suggestion would be to run 'ps auxf' (or pstree?) after the package
manager has launched, and hopefully you'll see *which* process runs your
update processes (the parent); At this point I would assume the issue is
there. First, check which package it belongs to and verify you're running
latest update for this package (you don't want to mess with
already-fixed-bugs). Then, assuming you're up-to-date and the issue
remains, strace -f this process, and only then click whatever you click
there - to see which system calls it does between the time you click what
you click, and the package manager going up. Perhaps this process waits on
something before it starts the actual update manager...

-- Shimi
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