Bug 12733

Summary:	mgaapplet-upgrade-helper halts, but resumes after echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Bjarne Thomsen <bjarne.thomsen>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Colin Guthrie <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Bjarne Thomsen 2014-02-11 18:48:32 CET

Upgrading from Mageia3 to Mageia4 came to a halt at "preparing.....". After a couple of hours I tried this command from a terminal (as root):
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
After a short while the installation proceeded at the usual speed. Why was it necessary to empty the caches manually? The upgrade went well. What is going on?

David Walser 2014-02-12 00:09:28 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 1 Bjarne Thomsen 2014-11-22 19:09:41 CET

The cause of this will probably never be found.

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