Bug 22782

Summary:	Installer/urpmi get stuck in loop evaluating already installed packages
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDTEST
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	urpmi	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	report.bug compressed Screen photo scroll-locked screen photo: after 2000s memory got full...

Description Morgan Leijström 2018-03-16 03:57:21 CET

Description of problem: urpmi loop -> Repair impossible!
I need to repair a broken grub. ( see Bug 22552#c21 )

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 6 64 bit install iso


__Steps to Reproduce:

1. Have an installed Mageia 6 system
1b. (more precisely this is a system including updates from updates testing)

2. Boot installer 

3. At partitioning stage select all mount points like the installed system
3b deselect any formatting of any partition!!

4 I selected to add and enable all available repos from a trusted mirror
Except i could not find how to enable all repos (testing) the installed system use :(

-> GUI now show a message it is evaluating installed packages
But... it never finishes!
On vt3(?) (Ctrl-Alt-F3) i see messages scrolling by very fast, seems like a loop. I halted the scroll using Fn-ScrLk, and took a photo and will attach, as well as the log, using "bug".
I also grabbed log using "bug".

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2018-03-16 05:07:06 CET

Created attachment 10046 [details]
report.bug compressed

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2018-03-16 05:23:28 CET

Created attachment 10047 [details]
Screen photo scroll-locked

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2018-03-16 05:25:44 CET

Created attachment 10048 [details]
screen photo: after 2000s memory got full...

Memory eventually got full, maybe that is a hint?

Marja Van Waes 2018-03-17 10:10:33 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2018-03-20 11:43:17 CET

Repair should be done slightly different and maybe that had worked in this case if not for Bug 22794 - Installer fails to offer upgrade

Summary: Installer/urpmi get stuck in loop evaluating already installed packages -> Repair impossible! => Installer/urpmi get stuck in loop evaluating already installed packages
Severity: critical => major

Comment 5 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 16:33:59 CEST

Is this still valid with current version of our tools? In Cauldron? In Mageia 7?

CC: (none) => ouaurelien

Morgan Leijström 2020-08-16 23:40:23 CEST

Assignee: mageiatools => qa-bugs
Keywords: (none) => NEEDTEST
Version: 6 => Cauldron

Comment 6 David Walser 2020-08-18 04:36:30 CEST

Ask on the qa-discuss and dev mailing lists for tests.  The qa-bugs list is for stable updates.

Assignee: qa-bugs => mageiatools