Bug 1599

Summary: Show progress bar after creating user when installing Live CD
Product: Mageia Reporter: Pierre Bonneau <pmithrandir>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Olivier Blin <mageia>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: andr55, marja11
Version: CauldronKeywords: Triaged, USABILITY
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: drakxtools CVE:
Status comment:

Description Pierre Bonneau 2011-06-05 12:34:29 CEST
Description of problem:
When you finish the mageia installation, after creating the user, mageia try to migrate home directory.

This step took 15 minutes yesterday on my computer and there is nothing to indicate that there is any progress.

I think we should have a progress bar, or maybe a verbose mode more detailed of what happen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia live KDE (the problem was also in mandriva)

How reproducible:
I have a seperate home partition of 36 gigabytes almost full. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install mageia on a existing mandriva of mageia distribution
2. restart
3. create user with the same username than the previous one
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-18 22:47:48 CEST
@ Pierre

Sorry for responding so late.

There should be a progress bar in steps that take long, you are right. I can't confirm it wasn't there, though, because I only installed the DVD. I must say, I don't remember that this step took so long during DVD-install. I wouldn't be suprised if your almost full /home slowed this step down, nor would I be surprised if a full /home had made this step impossible.

Please never use an almost full /home again, unless you want to format that partition first

Keywords: (none) => USABILITY
CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: Slow step when you install mageia on an existing home partition. => Show progress bar after creating user when installing KDE Live CD
Source RPM: (none) => draklive-install
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 2 Pierre Bonneau 2011-10-19 07:48:18 CEST
The question is : how do you reinstall your computer when you have already your partition prepared and a lot of datas inside you home directory.

I use all my hard disk of course, I will not let 36 GB free just for reinstallation. I don't want to change username, it's the same everywhere.

Usually, I do that to migrate up mageia, or to reinstall it bacause it become totally unstable.(mageia is not so stable).


Is it not possible to show progress bar ? I don't think my way to reinstall is so uncommon for a user only on linux.
Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-19 08:57:57 CEST
Your home partition is 36GB and in the description of this bug you say it is almost full.

Maybe you should tell how full it is, exactly.

Lots of things change on your home partition, a lot of settings in the hidden files are changed, you need a reasonable bit of space to facilitate that.

I'm wondering whether your Mageia being unstable, has something to do with a too full /home

CC: (none) => andre999mga

Comment 4 Pierre Bonneau 2011-10-19 13:37:53 CEST
I use almost 30 on 36GB usually.
105 000 files.

is it too much ?

BTW, the migration seems to work, it's just very slow...
Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-19 13:52:40 CEST
(In reply to comment #4)
> I use almost 30 on 36GB usually.
> 105 000 files.
> 
> is it too much ?
 

No, that's not too much.

But something must be wrong, I don't understand why Mageia is instable on your system. Did you go to the forum or file a bug report about the instability issue?
Comment 6 Pierre Bonneau 2011-10-19 14:13:37 CEST
Hi, It was just a general comment, not something related to that point.

Sometimes, KDE or others software are just too young and not really finished for advanced user...

I filed some other bugs about that.
Comment 7 Pierre Bonneau 2011-10-19 14:15:12 CEST
When I said advanced user, it was the wrong word.. more daily user than advanced.
Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-26 18:27:11 CEST

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 8 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-12 21:58:41 CET
(In fact the script is in drakx-finish-install)
Assigned to the package maintainer.

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Version: 1 => Cauldron
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Summary: Show progress bar after creating user when installing KDE Live CD => Show progress bar after creating user when installing Live CD
Source RPM: draklive-install => drakxtools

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2011-11-17 12:32:43 CET
I've suggested enhancements on bug #1148.
People should test them.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1148 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => mageia