Bug 27814 - System classification for package selection at install is dated
Summary: System classification for package selection at install is dated
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: Mageia 9
Assignee: Mageia tools maintainers
QA Contact:
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2020-12-14 04:05 CET by Ben McMonagle
Modified: 2021-03-17 15:29 CET (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM:
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Attachments
report from install (139.66 KB, application/x-xz)
2020-12-14 04:05 CET, Ben McMonagle
Details
lspcidrake from hardware (1.53 KB, text/plain)
2020-12-14 04:06 CET, Ben McMonagle
Details

Description Ben McMonagle 2020-12-14 04:05:15 CET
Description of problem:When installing Gnome DE only from below .iso onto 32bitUEFI hardware, several applications are absent at login.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-8-beta2-i586.iso
DATE.txt: Tue 08 Dec 2020 06:13:01 PM CET
md5sum:   64c0585df22549f3bfb0fa699fb08811


How reproducible: everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Gnome DE only onto 32bit EFI harware (Asus T00TA-DK003H)
2.
3.
Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2020-12-14 04:05:54 CET
Created attachment 12075 [details]
report from install
Comment 2 Ben McMonagle 2020-12-14 04:06:43 CET
Created attachment 12076 [details]
lspcidrake from hardware
Comment 3 Ben McMonagle 2020-12-14 04:07:50 CET
also occurs if install is multi-DE including Gnome DE
Ben McMonagle 2020-12-14 04:08:13 CET

Keywords: (none) => 8beta2

Thomas Backlund 2020-12-14 09:12:04 CET

Component: RPM Packages => Release (media or process)
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Thomas Backlund 2020-12-14 09:12:42 CET

CC: sysadmin-bugs => mageia

Comment 4 Martin Whitaker 2020-12-14 11:46:54 CET
This is because your system has been classified as needing a light desktop. This is done for systems where:

  - available RAM < 100MB
  - i586 and CPU frequency < 350MHz
  - system is a netbook

In your case, your system is classified as a netbook because it has an Intel Atom processor.

So the installer is working as designed. Whether that's the right thing to do is another matter.

epiphany and evolution are on the ISO, so you can manually select them.
Comment 5 Morgan Leijström 2020-12-14 16:35:43 CET
Sidenote: I think the RAM limit should be upped...

CC: (none) => fri

Comment 6 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-12-21 14:52:01 CET
(In reply to Martin Whitaker from comment #4)
> This is because your system has been classified as needing a light desktop.
> This is done for systems where:
> 
>   - available RAM < 100MB
>   - i586 and CPU frequency < 350MHz
>   - system is a netbook
> 
> In your case, your system is classified as a netbook because it has an Intel
> Atom processor.
> 
> So the installer is working as designed. Whether that's the right thing to
> do is another matter.
> 
> epiphany and evolution are on the ISO, so you can manually select them.

This works as intended.
Thanks all for commenting.
Closing this.

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

Comment 7 Morgan Leijström 2021-02-11 14:44:16 CET
(In reply to Martin Whitaker from comment #4)
> So the installer is working as designed. 
> Whether that's the right thing to do is another matter.

Exactly, it seem to need adjustment.


That netbook is a 4x1,9 Ghz Atom, with 2GB Ram -> probably no problem.

Maybe skip evaluating depending on "netbook"?

And up RAM and CPU freq limits a big step!
Like <1,5GB RAM, <1,5 GHz?

Example:  have a small one core 64 bit atom 1,6GHz 1GB that have difficulties running Firefox decently in Xfce. It works when i need for some login, but else Falkon is my friend there - It really need lightweight DE and apps.  (When my friend dumped the machine to me it was "running" the preinstalled MWS7 painfully sluggishly too)  My elder Thinkad T43 one core 32 bit 1,5Ghz beats the former in performance probably partly because of the 2GB RAM.

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 9
Keywords: 8beta2 => (none)
Resolution: INVALID => (none)
Hardware: i586 => All
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Source RPM: epiphany-3.38.2-1mga8.i586.rpm / evolution-3.38.1-1.mga8.i586.rpm => (none)
Summary: epiphany(web) and evolution not installed => System classification for package selection at install is dated
Component: Release (media or process) => Installer
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 8 Morgan Leijström 2021-02-16 14:12:00 CET
Bug 27814 - System classification for package selection at install is dated
Morgan Leijström 2021-02-16 14:12:36 CET

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24606

Aurelien Oudelet 2021-03-17 15:29:34 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools


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