Updates via GUI - no indicator

[Derek_]

[member=8996]Derek_[/member] do a screen recording of this 'no progress indicator' on Install Updates, record the whole thing start to finish.

Hi Jerry, that's a good idea/exercise (i've never done it before).

Just a note, i updated another laptop today and it did the same thing. I think that's 4 out of 4 now (maybe 5)? As i've only updated that one today it'll take me a while to get back to you with a screen record.

[member=6733]TheDead[/member] - i hadn't thought of it switching to a different Workspace. I'm not using multiple Workspaces when i go through this exercise, but i guess it is possible its flipping there somehow. I'll keep an eye out for that too.

[stevef]

Greetings,

I have two linux lite machines one running 3.8 and one on 4.0.  I've noticed that they behave differently when using the update GUI which I habitually run on first power up of the day from the 'Welcome to Linux Lite' pop up.  Both machines proceed similarly through the first few clicks.

After entering the password, both machines show the 'Updating Software Sources' window which shows the 'get' activity and then display the 'Updates Available' list window.

After selecting 'update now' at this point the behaviour differs.

The 3.8 machine displays 'Downloading - please wait' window with a progress bar.
This switches to an 'Installing - please wait' window with an activity indicator.
Finally, the 'Completed - success' window appears with the option to view the log.

On the 4.0 machine, if I watch carefully, the 'Downloading - please wait' window appears but it self clears very quickly (blink and you'd miss it).
This is the case even when there is a significant download e.g. a new version of Firefox.
I've not seen an 'installing' window and nothing appears to be happening until the 'updates completed successfully' window pops up.

I've never re-booted during the update but at least once (before I got used to it) I restarted the update process on the 4.0 machine during the 'silent' downloading/installing phase because I'd got confused what was happening.

The only other difference I've noticed is that at the 'enter password' window, 3.8 says the application is /usr/scripts/updates-gui and 4.0 says the application is /usr/bin/lite-updates.

[Derek_]

[member=8996]Derek_[/member] do a screen recording of this 'no progress indicator' on Install Updates, record the whole thing start to finish.

Sorry it's been too long. Here's the screenrecord (it's too big to attach, at 2mb).

https://mega.nz/#!GEZkDC6a!HPK-CMD8NudAV...zYJV4-Fevg

[Derek_]

On the 4.0 machine, if I watch carefully, the 'Downloading - please wait' window appears but it self clears very quickly (blink and you'd miss it).
This is the case even when there is a significant download e.g. a new version of Firefox.
I've not seen an 'installing' window and nothing appears to be happening until the 'updates completed successfully' window pops up.

Yup. That's it.

[Valtam]

[member=8996]Derek_[/member] I'd like to know the spec of the computer you made that recording on, looks like it was really struggling. Cpu, ram, gpu etc.

[Derek_]

[member=8996]Derek_[/member] I'd like to know the spec of the computer you made that recording on, looks like it was really struggling. Cpu, ram, gpu etc.

Hiya, this one is an i3-2310 with 4gb RAM.

note this has happened on a few other machines of varying specs (mostly lower than this one). But all have 4gb RAM.

[Valtam]

Try running lite-updates from the Terminal and record that.

[Derek_]

Locked, presumably the other updates i ran a short while ago are still in progress (there would have been a lot - i haven't touched the laptop since January). I have not yet received advice that they have completed.

https://mega.nz/#!TMYUUI4T!joj1BMUEBQBDO...f_-9APnJlM

It would have been better if i thought to do the terminal load the first time :/

[Valtam]

You'll need to keep your computer running until updates in the background finish or you'll end up in a mess with unfinished packages, keep monitoring the process via htop.

[Derek_]

You'll need to keep your computer running until updates in the background finish or you'll end up in a mess with unfinished packages, keep monitoring the process via htop.

It ultimately did pop up with the notification that all was done, and asked if i would like to reboot (which i did).

But yes, no notification of the updates in progress. I have to prep this machine for donation. Hopefully you have what you need, but if you still want, next time around i'll run lite-updates from the terminal and record it to show. But that might be a while again.