>> On 04 Sep 2003, Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have run into strange behavior on two separate installs of Oscar 2.3 > on top of Redhat 8.0. In both cases RH8 was updated current as of Aug > 29th. The same behaviors were noted on both installs which occurred on > two separate clusters. > > The first was during step 1, download additional packages. After > selecting this step a progress bar is displayed and the install gui > becomes unresponsive. This condition lasts for over a half hour during > which perl (according to top) runs as high as 90%, takes 2GB of RAM and > dips into swap before the gui dies. Running the gui again runs fine as > long as step 1 is bypassed.
There are two possible issues here. One is the 'opd' program and the other is the Opder GUI. The GUI simply calls the 'opd' script (which is found in $OSCAR_HOME/scripts/). It could be that 'opd' is not working properly OR it could be that the files you are trying to download are REALLY big and it's just taking a long time to transfer the files. Right now, there's no way to display the file download status within the Opder GUI (because opd itself doesn't output that info when called from another process). This is something that we will definitely address in the future. So, my suggestion is to run the $OSCAR_HOME/scripts/opd program from the command line and see if you can download the files that way. It should show you a progress bar on a per-file basis so you can see if the problem is opd failing, or just huge files taking a long time to download. If running opd from the command line seems to run fine (and quickly), you can try the Opder GUI again and look in the /var/cache/oscar/opd directory while getting files to see if they are actually coming in. The files are given an .opd extension while downloading. Any files that were successfully downloaded get put in /var/cache/oscar/downloads. If the problem is in fact opd failing, please let us know. Thanks. Terry Fleury [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
