Mageia 4 - update delay

[Shlomo Solomon]

Aside from regularly installing updates I've made no changes - but the
problem went away for no apparent reason. I guess I'll never know what
was causing the delay.

On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 09:29:56 +0200
shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:

> 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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