Bug 671593

Summary: Live-USB system hangs when installing some additional packages.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: Rafael Belmonte <EagleScreen>
Component: Live MediumAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: bwiedemann, Martin.Seidler, nico.kruber
Version: RC 1   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: Other   
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Description Rafael Belmonte 2011-02-14 00:32:09 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b10) Gecko/20110121 Firefox/4.0b10

Live-USB system hangs if I try to install some additional packages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot the Live-USB image.
2.Open Yast package manager and choose some packages to install.
3.Wait some time while packages are being installed.
4.You will see how the system becomes slowly until it becomes completely unusable.
Actual Results:  
While you are waiting for packages to be installed, you will see how the system becomes slowly until it becomes completely unusable.

Expected Results:  
Packages should be installed successfully, and they should be available to use in the Live environment. If the Live-USB system is persistent, also packages should be already installed and available the next boot.
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2011-02-17 21:03:39 UTC 
how large is your usb device? do you have any kernel logs?
Comment 2 Rafael Belmonte 2011-02-18 12:11:10 UTC 
The USB disk is 4GB large.
Will try to look at logs.
Comment 3 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-02-20 08:26:55 UTC 
on my KDE-LiveCD-i686 on a 2GB USB disk, I saw such hangs for 5-10 secs:
strace -p `pidof clicfs`
read(4,...) = 4096
writev(5,...)
readv(5, 13xxxx) = 80
futex(0x....., FUTEX_PRIVATE, 2


whenever some application wanted to write something (e.g. when clicking a link in firefox)
Comment 4 Nico Kruber 2011-02-22 19:57:48 UTC 
I already had this problem (hang during package install) with the 11.3 Live KDE image :(
never solved it - but tried to create my own image using SuSE Studio instead...
Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2011-02-25 12:18:24 UTC 
a raw image you mean? that's clever - it's not using compressed file system, so it will work better.

The compression has its price, we may want to improve it for 11.5 though
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2011-08-02 09:36:56 UTC 
this should be greatly improved with newer clicfs