FS#19589 - AIF will continue if no packages were installed

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Stefan Wilkens (stefanwilkens) - Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 10:07 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 08 December 2010, 20:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2010.05.16-testbuild
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

The following happened:

During installation of Arch using the i686 net install 2010.05 image, while downloading packages off the mirror, the downloading of one of the packages didn't complete successfully. I only noticed this because I was looking at the process while it was downloading.

After all packages had been downloaded, pacman naturally reported that nothing was updated due to a problem with the downloads. AIF, however, hid that message by scrolling all the way up in the log (pacman's messages at the end of the log were not visible without scrolling down) and reported that Package Installation was Complete. Of course, nothing was installed.

I went back, restarted the section package installation. Pacman downloaded the one package that had gone wrong and subsequently started installing all packages.

It seems AIF is not aware of the failure and continues assuming all went well as soon as pacman exits.
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Wednesday, 08 December 2010, 20:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#15854 
Comment by JWC (jwcxz) - Saturday, 12 June 2010, 04:39 GMT
I experienced the same issue yesterday, in a more severe way. I had chosen the kernel.org mirror, but there seemed to be an issue with the mirror such that around 70% of the packages failed to download. If I had walked away when the packages started downloading and come back after the installation had finished, it would have appeared as though all of the packages had been installed correctly.
Comment by M. Brown (mbrown) - Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 18:14 GMT
I had the same issue. Going back and doing the package installation step again did fix the problem (ie download the missing package and allow the installation to proceed). T

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