Bug 239701

Summary:	Yast Xen Manager - Slow start, no busy pointer
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Tom Miller <madprogextrodinr>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Clyde Griffin <cgriffin>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Tom Miller 2007-01-28 17:03:00 UTC

The yast xen manager takes a long time to load.   This isn't the main problem.  The busy pointer comes up for about 20 seconds and then goes back to a normal pointer.    So you aren't sure if you it died or what.  The first fix needs to keep the busy pointer active the entire time that it takes to display the management screen.

Comment 1 Charles Coffing 2007-02-02 03:01:37 UTC

This takes a long time to load, because it's connecting to the package database and ensuring that all the xen packages are installed.  I think the slowness is actually in libzypp.

Going forward, yast2-vm has been split:  the yast tool has been streamlined and only checks the configuration, and it is faster now.  The VM installation process is a separate tool, which also starts much faster.

I don't think this large change won't be backported to 10.2, but it'll be in SLES10 SP1 and 10.3.

Comment 2 Tom Miller 2007-02-02 03:13:52 UTC

I agree that you shouldn't back port the changes of splitting things up.  What I would hope you would add is additional busy pointer calls for each step that you described above so that at least you see that it is processing vs thinking that the click processed for 20 seconds and then failed.

I would think forcing the busy pointer would be easy to do, low risk to the code base.

Comment 3 Lynn Bendixsen 2007-02-07 15:37:49 UTC

The new tool mentioned in comment #1 has the problem fixed in it and the old tool which exists in openSuse 10.2 is deprecated and will not be fixed.  Sorry for the inconvenience.