Bug 722043

Summary: Displayed installation time is jumpy
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution Reporter: Karl Eichwalder <ke>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P4 - Low CC: gs, richard.bos
Version: Leap 42.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Found By: Documentation Services Priority:
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Attachments: y2log
The screenshot is just a moment that gives an indication about the ETA, the time is indeed changing often

Description Karl Eichwalder 2011-10-04 13:59:30 UTC
The time displayed in YaST during package installation while updating is rather jumpy.  More than 3000 package were needed to update.  In the middle, it were down to a few seconds left, then it went up to half an hour.

See the log.
Comment 1 Karl Eichwalder 2011-10-04 14:00:30 UTC
Created attachment 454418 [details]
y2log
Comment 2 Juergen Weigert 2013-01-30 13:46:10 UTC
I can see a related issue on 12.3 fresh install.
Installing Packages is at 85%, (Remaining 1:57, 312 packages)
for the next 5 minutes the time was within 1:55 and 1:58, ca 10 minutes later,
I was at 86%, (Remaining 1:33, 250 packages)
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2013-02-22 11:04:18 UTC
stop changing assignees
Comment 5 Karl Eichwalder 2013-11-12 12:08:30 UTC
still the same on 13.1
Comment 6 Juergen Weigert 2013-11-12 13:39:31 UTC
Sidenote: it is unclear, if a time printed in the media table is meant as hh:mm or meant as mm:ss. I suggest to put appropriate units in the column heading.
Comment 7 Karl Eichwalder 2013-11-12 14:21:15 UTC
Interesting enough, during the second stage of the installation (update) when yast mostly installed texlive package, the time countdown was correct...
Comment 8 Karl Eichwalder 2015-12-09 09:10:33 UTC
Still broken on Leap 42.1...

Wondering whether I should move this to the new product?
Comment 9 Richard Bos 2016-12-30 14:14:08 UTC
Created attachment 708107 [details]
The screenshot is just a moment that gives an indication about the ETA,  the time is indeed changing often
Comment 10 Richard Bos 2016-12-30 14:19:04 UTC
I actually wanted to open a new bug for this issue, for openSUSE leap 42.2.  But this report was given as a possible candidate.  And I agree, unfortunately the problem is already more than five years old!  Why?  What's the problem with giving a stable ETA?

Ain't it possible to just use the average it have taken to install the packages, multiplied with the packages to be installed?

It's an important factor to know how long an installation is going to take, 
with the current jumpiness, well it's no fun...
Comment 11 Tomáš Chvátal 2018-04-13 14:56:12 UTC
This is automated batch bugzilla cleanup.

The openSUSE 42.1 changed to end-of-life (EOL [1]) status. As such
it is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any
further security or bug fix updates.
As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
openSUSE, or you can still observe it under openSUSE Leap 15.0, please
feel free to reopen this bug against that version (see the "Version"
component in the bug fields), or alternatively open
a new ticket.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed
during the lifetime of the release.

[1] https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime