Bug 638663

Summary: linuxrc: NET installer downloading progress not updated
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Description Christopher Yeleighton 2010-09-10 23:37:44 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-PL; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100626 SUSE/3.6.6-1.2 Ant.com Toolbar 2.0.1 Firefox/3.6.6

The installer appears to stall while downloading boot images over a slow link.  The progress of the current download is not being reported.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from openSUSE 11.3 NET installer for x86-64.
2. Select Install.
3. Watch the installer download boot images (6).
Actual Results:  
3.
There is no feedback about the downloading process;
the installation screen shows that the previous step has been downloaded
100% but the current download is not visible and the download progress is not being updated.  It appears the installer has been stalled, especially over a slow link.  The boot images appear on the console only after they have fully arrived, with progress level of 100%. 

Expected Results:  
The boot image currently being downloaded should be announced on the console and download progress should be periodically updated from 0% to 100%.

Workaround:
Virtual terminal #3 shows the file (stage) being downloaded.
Virtual terminal #9 allows you to examine the size of the target using the
command { ls '-l' 'download'; }.  If the size is increasing, all is good.

Note: the ls command in the installer image is minimal; in particular, it does not work on files (it says "file not found").  Quite funny.
Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2014-08-15 09:41:31 UTC
I think this happens when the link gets redirected and size information is missing.