Comment 3 for bug 1244211

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MichaƂ Sawicz (saviq) wrote : Re: [Bug 1244211] Re: system-image-cli hangs indefinitely at "Running group download reactor"

On 08.11.2013 20:43, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> That looks like a problem with the download service not sending us the
> necessary signals. I'll bet it's unreproducible right?;)
>
> Eventually, the reactor would timeout anyway (default is 10 minutes),
> but that probably wouldn't help you debug this much. If you wanted to,
> you could set the environment variable SYSTEMIMAGE_REACTOR_TIMEOUT to
> some huge number of seconds and see if it's just a slow network
> connection. While you're doing that, tail /var/log/system-
> image/client.log for details about system-image-dbus and (I think)
> /home/phablet/.cache/ubuntu-download-manager/ubuntu-download-manager
> /ubuntu-download-manager.log (!) for details about what's happening in
> the dl service.
>
> Best guess is that it's just an intermittent networking problem.

Probably, yes. Are we getting progress/error reports from the reactor
during the download? Even with --verbose, you just have to hope that
it's actually downloading and not stuck - would be enough to just
forward some updates from the reactor to the user.