Myrlyn not responding during updates frequently FYI for maintainers - any one else?

Hi, more for information in case it helps maintainers / admin with this. I have noticed on quite a few occasions & again today doing the latest update that if I use Myrlyn it often comes up with a not responding message - cancel or wait. I obviously press wait each time but it is a bit frustrating / annoying to have to do this 5 or 10 times during a big update.

This doesn’t happen using Zypper or Discover in Gnome as far as I can tell. I don’t believe it is a hard ware issue as I have plenty of processors see screenshot & 32GB ram.
I think I’ll stick with Zypper dup going forward. Hope this helps is there anything else I can call up & show to help?

Libzypp is busy downloading that last package “kernel-firmware-qcom” that has the “downloading” icon (as opposed to the “downloading finished” icon with the checkmark). It’s either the download server or (less likely) your Internet connection.

This is one of the largest packages in the distribution:

And as I wrote, this is in libzypp, not Myrlyn: It doesn’t call the “download progress” callback. This will be the same in zypper.

You might want to check what download server you are using (zypper lr -Ed). This package is in the OSS repo.

And BTW the problem is not libzypp, Myrlyn or the download, it’s that over-eager “not responding” watchdog. Your machine might have a legitimate reason to be busy. Also, what exactly does this “does not respond” mean? Respond to what? This is not Android, but somebody implemented this Android functionality in Linux.

See also https://askubuntu.com/questions/1068921/how-to-disable-the-window-not-responding-dialog

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Thanks Stefan, set org.gnome.mutter.check-alive-timeout=0 in dconf-editor to get rid of that nonsense completely.

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