Mageia 4 - update delay

[Amos Shapira]

Also - what do you see in the logs?

On 7 December 2014 at 03:39, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 00:10:06 +0200
> shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Shlomo Solomon
> > <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Since upgrading from Mageia 3 to Mageia 4, when I get a
> > > notification that updates are available, I click on it but Software
> > > Package Update starts only after exactly a 4 minute delay.
> > >
> > > Any ideas why?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Maybe it is waiting on some lock file? Package managers has this
> > tendency...
> >
> > Does it really start after 4 minutes, or does it just start showing
> > the UI after 4 minutes? See if new process has been created. If
> > there's a new process, try to strace -f -p <pid> to see what it is
> > waiting on (you probably want to suffix this command with
> > [ >update.strace 2>&1 ] as the output will probably become quite
> > large. Also you should run this as root if the process launched is
> > not in your own UID)
> >
> > -- Shimi
>
>
>
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