Slow updater solution (maybe?)

[dr.adrian]

  Has anyone tried to use the auto flag with the updater (a la "./updater -auto")? Worked for me.

[ag0ny]

I experienced the not at all working updater as well.

Coincidentally i found out that only data is downloaded and the gui updated shortly after the window was made visible again, as brought back in the foreground or i switched back to the workspace the updater ran on from another workspace. It also helped to move another window over the updater and close the window there.

As i am an extremly lazy person and i am using gnome i opened a gnome-terminal an executed the following command (without leading and following quotation marks):

"for i in /dev/; do for i in /dev/; do gnome-terminal -e exit; sleep 1; done; done;"

This will open a gnome-terminal automaticaly every second and automaticaly close it again. If you now make sure the gnome-terminal appears above the updater window the updater will update his gui and keep downloading and therefor updateing. Also this is a very ugly workaround it worked like a charm for me. 

Hope this helps anyone...

[Kaleriss]

Heh.  I updated by clicking furiously on the updater in the task bar, minimizing and unminimizing, until it was complete.  Hello carpal tunnel. =P

[fozner]

I believe the updater keeps going if you leave it alone. It just doesn't update the screen frequently. Seems like it completed when I left it running as I went to the discount barn.

[ag0ny]

I believe the updater keeps going if you leave it alone. It just doesn't update the screen frequently. Seems like it completed when I left it running as I went to the discount barn.

I thought so too, but then i started the network traffic tool and there was no traffic at all when i left the updater alone.

[Murtok]

./updater -auto

Funktioniert doch super! Warum so viel aufwand?

[Ravolt]

Heh.  I updated by clicking furiously on the updater in the task bar, minimizing and unminimizing, until it was complete.  Hello carpal tunnel. =P

Yep same here 

[Henza]

I just kept hitting alt + tab... 

I remembered that there was something like that updater -auto, but I am lazy, so I thought that was easier...

[Peacer]

I experienced the not at all working updater as well.

Coincidentally i found out that only data is downloaded and the gui updated shortly after the window was made visible again, as brought back in the foreground or i switched back to the workspace the updater ran on from another workspace. It also helped to move another window over the updater and close the window there.

As i am an extremly lazy person and i am using gnome i opened a gnome-terminal an executed the following command (without leading and following quotation marks):

"for i in /dev/; do for i in /dev/; do gnome-terminal -e exit; sleep 1; done; done;"

This will open a gnome-terminal automaticaly every second and automaticaly close it again. If you now make sure the gnome-terminal appears above the updater window the updater will update his gui and keep downloading and therefor updateing. Also this is a very ugly workaround it worked like a charm for me. 

Hope this helps anyone...

distro sir?

amd of I'm not using gnome terminal is there any way to know what to write and how to find out what to write (termianl -v or something)?