I tried running ps -A before clicking, a few times during the 4 minute wait and after the GUI started. I then used diff to compare. The only change I found during the wait was an additional kworker/2:0 (there were already over 20 kworker processes running). Could this be significant? I haven't yet run strace as you suggested.
When the GUI started, I found a MageiaUpdate process and an additional drakrpm-update process (for a total of 2). I assume the first one is responsible for the periodic check if new updates are available. On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 00:10:06 +0200 shimi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Shlomo Solomon > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Since upgrading from Mageia 3 to Mageia 4, when I get a > > notification that updates are available, I click on it but Software > > Package Update starts only after exactly a 4 minute delay. > > > > Any ideas why? > > > > > > > Maybe it is waiting on some lock file? Package managers has this > tendency... > > Does it really start after 4 minutes, or does it just start showing > the UI after 4 minutes? See if new process has been created. If > there's a new process, try to strace -f -p <pid> to see what it is > waiting on (you probably want to suffix this command with > [ >update.strace 2>&1 ] as the output will probably become quite > large. Also you should run this as root if the process launched is > not in your own UID) > > -- Shimi -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.12.15 - LINUX Mageia 4 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
