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eyolf

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From: Copenhagen

Registered: 2005-11-29

Posts: 339

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Upgrade: ... done - then what?

Just a simple, silly question, since it's still relatively early in the day:
In pacman, after a package is installed or upgraded, it tacks on "... done", but it still takes a while before the shell prompt returns again. What's happening during those seconds? Is it pacman doing some house-cleaning before leaving, or is that " ... done" just a lie? I've noticed, with big packages, that it takes almost no time at all to get to "done", but then quite some time to get to the prompt.

As I said, silly query, but it's been puzzling me.

myst

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From: Brest, Belarus

Registered: 2006-01-30

Posts: 54

Re: Upgrade: ... done - then what?

hm... I get shell prompt right after "... done".

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Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

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Re: Upgrade: ... done - then what?

Mine too.

Eyolf, I reckon your computer hesitates in fear of giving you back the power of a prompt. It might consider wether if it should do so or not, weigh up if you might reinstall it (again) if it does not, and give you back the prompt with a sigh. I bet you'll find an entry in the logfiles like:

2006 04 25 10:23:02 - considering to admit console prompt  again
2006 04 25 10:27:13 - risk of reinstallation or other rude user attacks is considered to be at 98%
2006 04 25 10:27:14 - risk of ongoing user errors that could brake me is considered to be 76%
2006 04 25 10:27:15 - admit console prompt. Sigh.

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Upgrade: ... done - then what?

Just a simple, silly question, since it's still relatively early in the day:
In pacman, after a package is installed or upgraded, it tacks on "... done", but it still takes a while before the shell prompt returns again. What's happening during those seconds? Is it pacman doing some house-cleaning before leaving, or is that " ... done" just a lie? I've noticed, with big packages, that it takes almost no time at all to get to "done", but then quite some time to get to the prompt.

As I said, silly query, but it's been puzzling me.

I think so, updating the list of installed packages or something.

In my experience, it doesn't take that long before the shell prompt returns if you run pacman-optimize from time to time... And it seems to take longer if I have lots of packages installed.

eyolf

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From: Copenhagen

Registered: 2005-11-29

Posts: 339

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Re: Upgrade: ... done - then what?

Mine too.

Eyolf, I reckon your computer hesitates in fear of giving you back the power of a prompt. It might consider wether if it should do so or not, weigh up if you might reinstall it (again) if it does not, and give you back the prompt with a sigh. I bet you'll find an entry in the logfiles like:

2006 04 25 10:23:02 - considering to admit console prompt  again
2006 04 25 10:27:13 - risk of reinstallation or other rude user attacks is considered to be at 98%
2006 04 25 10:27:14 - risk of ongoing user errors that could brake me is considered to be 76%
2006 04 25 10:27:15 - admit console prompt. Sigh.

How did you know? That's almost verbatim what it says! I solved it with a couple of good beatings - I banged my Complete Linux User's Guide against the screen a couple of times, and now pacman is behaving again - I think (it's all black now, but at least he learned a lesson).