I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system.
When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the "quit" button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if it's locked up.
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