Bug 350908

Summary: progress bars do not behave in a linear fashion while packages are downloaded and installed
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Karl Scheel <scheel.karl>
Component: UpdatesAssignee: Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: aleixpol, dequire, desbois.francois, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Karl Scheel 2015-08-03 07:22:56 UTC 
Whenever, I run muon/updater 2.2.0, I notice the blue progress bar not behaving in a linear fashion as the updates are downloaded and installed; instead, a narrow blue bar continuously moves back and forth across the progress bar field until. It NEVER provides ANY useful information regarding the completeness of the download- or install-process; instead, it always leaves me guessing as to how much longer they are going to take. VERY FRUSTRATING! However, I experienced no problem whatsoever with the older version of muon-updater that is included in Kubuntu 12.04 LTS; that version of muon works perfectly. This is the reason why I went back to 12.04; I thought this problem would be fixed by now, but I guess I was wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on update manager in System Tray, or select from KDE menu in System Tab.
2. Enter root password.
3. Observe the blue progress-bar as updates are downloaded and then installed.

Actual Results:  
A narrow, blue progress indicator simply moves left and right repeatedly, instead of growing towards the right in a linear-manner as the updates are downloaded; ditto for the installation progress-bar.

Expected Results:  
The progress-bars should have grown in a linear-manner to indicate percent-completed; that is what they are there for.

I am running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on a 20-inch iMac5,1 (late 2006); I believe this to be irrelevant, but I will mention it anyway.
Comment 1 Karl Scheel 2015-08-03 07:29:25 UTC 
I apologize for the missing word in the second part of first sentence in the Description above; it should read, "until completed".
Comment 2 James Cain 2015-09-03 16:33:24 UTC 
This bug affects me as well, in Muon 5.4. It's really frustrating when downloading -dbg packages, for example, or any large file. Upon waiting a considerable time, the status bar will jump from 0 to 67 percent, for example. There's no consistency and therefore the information presented is not helpful in any way.

Muon 5.4
Frameworks 5.13.0
Kubuntu 15-10 Beta
Comment 3 Aleix Pol 2016-09-14 10:09:13 UTC 
*** Bug 331405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Aleix Pol 2017-05-30 15:41:01 UTC 
This should be working well now. Also everything changed, we're using packagekit for that now.
Comment 5 Aleix Pol 2017-05-30 15:41:11 UTC 
This should be working well now. Also everything changed, we're using packagekit for that now.