Bug 11650

Summary:	harddrake can cause the boot to lock if it tries to download an rpm
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joseph Wang <joequant>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakxtools	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Joseph Wang 2013-11-11 20:25:03 CET

Description of problem:

/usr/share/harddrake/service_harddrake can cause the boot to lock up.  This can occur when harddrake wants to download an rpm for fglrx but the network has not been activated.

service_harddrake should have a time-out which continues the boot after 60 seconds with a notice that the hardware load has been timed out




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Any


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. set urpmi to do a network download
2. downgrade fglrx
3. boot and disconnect machine from network


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Joseph Wang 2013-11-11 20:25:46 CET

Severity: normal => major

Manuel Hiebel 2013-12-22 13:17:53 CET

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: harddrake-15.72-1.mga4 => drakxtools

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2013-12-22 13:25:48 CET

CCing blino as he did fixes regarding this in the old days

CC: (none) => mageia, thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2013-12-22 13:33:07 CET

Actually harddrake already has a 2mn timeout...

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-23 13:59:05 CEST

Closing as INVALID per comment #2. Please reopen if needed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2015-04-27 10:56:04 CEST

Well, that depends on whether Joseph was describing a theoretical issue or something he has seen.
@Joseph: please reopen if you saw it