Bugs item #686928, was opened at 2003-02-14 21:32 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=686928&group_id=9368
Category: Installation Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Benoit des Ligneris (bligneri) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Installation wizard frozen when quiiting collecting MAC win Initial Comment: The wizard is frozen each time I left the "collect MAC address & co" pannel. This happens when the tcpdump is still running. Works fine when tcpdump is dead. So I think "killall -9 tcpdump" before lefting the pannel will do the job. More elegant : store the process ID of tcpdump and kill only this instance of the program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Jason Brechin (brechin) Date: 2003-02-26 22:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=274641 Well... the ping process id is stored. If it's not set, it doesn't try to kill it. When it kills the ping, it unsets the process ID. Perhaps it's having problems killing the ping? Perhaps the VMWare networking is set up strangely so that pinging the broadcast address causes problems? I've had intermittent problems with the ping as it is done now and have resorted to pinging particular addresses (like the client addresses or the server's address IIRC) in those cases where I have problems. Perhaps the address that is pinged should be changed? Again... I've done installs on various OSs and have not seen this problem. Then again, I don't open and close the Setup Networking window like a madman either ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) Date: 2003-02-26 22:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11722 Upon a little more testing, I think the Tk error is actually a double click on the "Close" button in the networking window (it got a double click because it was running so slow that I was able to click on the button twice before it actually closed the window). So this is probably not a huge deal. But the non-refreshing delay is definitely repeatable -- it seems to be that the window is trying to kill the background ping twice, and the big delay is while its trying to kill the ping the second time. Specifically: ----- Attempting to kill 14257 --> Step 6: Killed background ping --> Step 6: Stopped listening to network --> Step 6: Completed successfully [...big delay...] --> Step 6: Killed background ping ------ Once that last line comes up, the main window unfreezes and all is well. So I'm guessing that there's some code in there that doesn't detect that the ping is already dead and the delay is a product of trying to kill it incorrectly. Should probably be pretty easy to fix. I'll bet that this wasn't correctly diagnosed before because the delay is somewhat long (O(30 secs)?), and I'll bet that Ben and I didn't wait it out before. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) Date: 2003-02-26 21:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11722 I have attached an oscarinstall.log showing the problem. Here's what I did: - opened networking window - started collecting macs - clicked on close - saw the output saying that it killed the network ping - main window was frozen (non-refreshing) for about 30 seconds, although it was not busy (i.e., the cursor was the arrow, not the stopwatch). After about 30 seconds, it started refreshing and the buttons became responsive. - repeated the same procedure (in the same run), with the same results - repeated the same procedure (in the same run) and got a Tk error. See the attached oscarinstall.log. So something is going wrong here, and it doesn't look like this a vmware issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Brechin (brechin) Date: 2003-02-25 09:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=274641 Can someone send an oscarinstall.log from an instance of this happening? I see no case where this could/should happen. Perhaps it is a VMWare issue? You two (Ben & Jeff) seem to be the only ones testing with VMWare... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) Date: 2003-02-25 08:04 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11722 FWIW, this happened to me last night when I was collecting screen shots for the docs. The entire wizard was hung, and I had to ctrl-C out of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=686928&group_id=9368 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
