Long upgrade status gives impression of frozen system

[castrojo]

On a bootc upgrade, after the status bars finish downloading it appears that the IO part is next, which is writing to the disk, however there is no progress displayed on my screen:

It was stuck like this for long enough to make me think that the entire process had locked up. After waiting the final progress summary was displayed. Everything is working fine, I think it's just a matter of communicating that 2nd longer operation better.

[cgwalters]

What version of bootc and ostree are you using?

This should already be fixed by #848 and the real problem causing the delay was ostreedev/ostree#3326

Can you retest with e.g. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-88b4110a60 and https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-246828877f ?

[tulilirockz]

Im on these versions and that seems to be happening to me too. Ill test the latest bootc version to see if it works better

~/opt/bluefin> bootc --version                                                                                                                                              
bootc 1.1.0                                                                                                                                                                 
~/opt/bluefin> ostree --version                                                                                                                                             
libostree:                                                                                                                                                                  
 Version: '2024.8'                                                                                                                                                          
 Git: 4b9a78306b2437bd1d997be4c91ccd5f9b0a0d8a                                                                                                                              
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[ryanabx]

Im on these versions and that seems to be happening to me too. Ill test the latest bootc version to see if it works better

~/opt/bluefin> bootc --version                                                                                                                                              
bootc 1.1.0                                                                                                                                                                 
~/opt/bluefin> ostree --version                                                                                                                                             
libostree:                                                                                                                                                                  
 Version: '2024.8'                                                                                                                                                          
 Git: 4b9a78306b2437bd1d997be4c91ccd5f9b0a0d8a                                                                                                                              
 Features:                                                                                                                                                                  
  - inode64                                                                                                                                                                 
  - initial-var                                                                                                                                                             
  - libcurl                                                                                                                                                                 
  - libsoup3                                                                                                                                                                
  - gpgme                                                                                                                                                                   
  - composefs                                                                                                                                                               
  - ex-fsverity                                                                                                                                                             
  - libarchive                                                                                                                                                              
  - selinux                                                                                                                                                                 
  - openssl                                                                                                                                                                 
  - sign-ed25519                                                                                                                                                            
  - libmount                                                                                                                                                                
  - systemd                                                                                                                                                                 
  - release                                                                                                                                                                 
  - p2p            

Looks like v1.1.2 is the latest version

[kfox1111]

I've noticed this too. If you already have most of the image already there, but just pulling a few small layers, the finalization step can dominate the time.

Mostly noticed on particularly slow drives, like using a usb thumb drive with a pi for doing some testing.