[Fedora-livecd-list] Revisor stalls while downloading packages

[Jonathan Steffan]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 07:35 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
> Last night I started running Revisor.

What type of media are you creating?


>  I thought I'd finally gotten all
> the config files convinced to play nice.

May we see?

>   I'm using a repository that
> existing on another machine on the same network.  I haven't tested this
> repository extensively (it's a replacement for a machine that died), but
> have used it to do a couple of recent installs/updates on 1 machine and
> everything seems to work properly.
> 
> It got to the "Building your media" screen, went through checking
> dependencies and then sat there on downloading packages.  I check it with
> ps and it was taking 10+% CPU and 23% Memory.  This morning, it's still in
> the same stage (downloading media) and the task progress bar has not
> moved.  CPU usage has dropped to 1%. 

It sounds like you hit a bug. If you're willing, run Revisor from a
terminal so you can get the traceback.


>  What I'm assuming is the cache log
> (/var/tmp/revisorrevisor-yum.log) is empty.  The cache directory 
> (/var/tmp/revisor-yumcache) has been created and there's a subdirectory
> for each of the entries that were on the repo screen (development, fedora,
> updates) and each has various items including an empty packages directory.
>  The log (/var/log/revisor.log) ends with a copy of the warning I received
> about /srv/revisor already existing (from a previous failed run).
> 
> Any suggestions on troubleshooting this? 

What version of Revisor are you using? (rpm -q revisor)

>  Maybe rip Revisor out and beat it with a baseball bat?

Sure. Just not the face ;-)

Jonathan Steffan
daMaestro