RE: Bug#55820: apt grossly misestimates download
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Ross Boylan wrote:
> OK, what more information do you need?
>
> Considering that I sat in front of the computer as it listed files it was
> downloading, and that it went through them slowly (I have a modem), I think
Are you saying it continued to print things on the screen even after the
progress meter 'disappeared' and what exactly do you mean by disappeared.
Did you ignore any telling error messages?
There is one way I can see what you describe happening, but for that to
happen the progress meter could not go away.
> your statement that "there certainly is no more downloading going on" is off
> base. Certainly closing a bug because you think it can't happen isn't good
> practice.
I have a general rule, the more obvios the bug (and the more unlikely it
is to happen) the better chance it is user-error and not a programming
problem.. This is *REALLY* obvios and *REALLY* unlikely :>
For instance, you may have your screen/console misconfigured which gives
the effect of a vanishing progress bar.
Jason
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