In Core Update 161 (testing):  Same issue.  I see the spin and Pakfire is working . . . but no messages.

IPFire 2.27 (x86_64) - Core Update 161 Development Build: master/191347cc

Jon


On Oct 21, 2021, at 5:17 AM, Bernhard Bitsch <bbitsch@ipfire.org> wrote:

Reviewed-by: Bernhard Bitsch <bbitsch@ipfire.org>

The locking is functioning.
But the excerpt of /var/log/messages isn't displayed.

Am 18.10.2021 um 21:09 schrieb Stefan Schantl:
When performing any action which requires pakfire, the page gets locked
with an message informing the user that pakfire is working. The page
will be reloaded when pakfire has been launched and is doing the
requested operation - showing the well known log output. This also
happens when pakfire has been launched via any kind of terminal or SSH
session and the CGI gets accessed.
Internally before pakfire gets started a variable called page_lock will
be set to lock the page. An while loop will keep the page locked until
pakfire is launched fully and has written it's lock_file.
This approach will prevent us from any kind of required time intervall
or race conditions.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>
---
 html/cgi-bin/pakfire.cgi | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/html/cgi-bin/pakfire.cgi b/html/cgi-bin/pakfire.cgi
index 0cf522ba1..f2381f031 100644
--- a/html/cgi-bin/pakfire.cgi
+++ b/html/cgi-bin/pakfire.cgi
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ $cgiparams{'VALID'} = '';
 $cgiparams{'INSPAKS'} = '';
 $cgiparams{'DELPAKS'} = '';
 +my $page_lock;
+
 sub refreshpage{&Header::openbox( 'Waiting', 1, "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='1;'>" );print "<center><img src='/images/clock.gif' alt='' /><br/><font color='red'>$Lang::tr{'pagerefresh'}</font></center>";&Header::closebox();}
   &Header::getcgihash(\%cgiparams);
@@ -57,8 +59,9 @@ sub refreshpage{&Header::openbox( 'Waiting', 1, "<meta http-equiv='refresh' cont
 if (($cgiparams{'ACTION'} eq 'install') && (! -e $Pakfire::lockfile)) {
  my @pkgs = split(/\|/, $cgiparams{'INSPAKS'});
  if ("$cgiparams{'FORCE'}" eq "on") {
+ # Lock the page.
+ $page_lock = "1";
  &General::system_background("/usr/local/bin/pakfire", "install", "--non-interactive", "--no-colors", @pkgs);
- sleep(2);
  } else {
  &Header::openbox("100%", "center", $Lang::tr{'request'});
  my @output = &General::system_output("/usr/local/bin/pakfire", "resolvedeps", "--no-colors", @pkgs);
@@ -95,8 +98,9 @@ END
 } elsif (($cgiparams{'ACTION'} eq 'remove') && (! -e $Pakfire::lockfile)) {
  my @pkgs = split(/\|/, $cgiparams{'DELPAKS'});
  if ("$cgiparams{'FORCE'}" eq "on") {
+ # Lock the page.
+ $page_lock = "1";
  &General::system_background("/usr/local/bin/pakfire", "remove", "--non-interactive", "--no-colors", @pkgs);
- sleep(2);
  } else {
  &Header::openbox("100%", "center", $Lang::tr{'request'});
  my @output = &General::system_output("/usr/local/bin/pakfire", "resolvedeps", "--no-colors", @pkgs);
@@ -132,8 +136,12 @@ END
  }
   } elsif (($cgiparams{'ACTION'} eq 'update') && (! -e $Pakfire::lockfile)) {
+ # Set variable to lock the page.
+ $page_lock = "1";
  &General::system_background("/usr/local/bin/pakfire", "update", "--force", "--no-colors");
 } elsif (($cgiparams{'ACTION'} eq 'upgrade') && (!-e $Pakfire::lockfile)) {
+ # Lock the page.
+ $page_lock = "1";
  &General::system_background("/usr/local/bin/pakfire", "upgrade", "-y", "--no-colors");
 } elsif ($cgiparams{'ACTION'} eq "$Lang::tr{'save'}") {
  $pakfiresettings{"TREE"} = $cgiparams{"TREE"};
@@ -169,6 +177,43 @@ if ($errormessage) {
  &Header::closebox();
 }
 +# Check if a page lock is required.
+if ($page_lock) {
+ &Header::openbox('Waiting', 1, ,);
+ print <<END;
+ <table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src='/images/indicator.gif' alt='$Lang::tr{'active'}' title='$Lang::tr{'active'}'>
+ </td>
+
+ <td>
+ $Lang::tr{'pakfire working'}
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+END
+ &Header::closebox();
+
+ # Infinite loop to lock the page until pakfire lockfile is present.
+ while($page_lock) {
+ unless (-e $Pakfire::lockfile) {
+ sleep(1);
+ } else {
+ # Release page lock.
+ undef($page_lock);
+
+ # Break loop.
+ last;
+ }
+ }
+
+ # Perform page reload.
+ print "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='1;'>\n";
+ exit;
+}
+
+# Check if pakfire is already running. In this case a lockfile is present.
 if (-e $Pakfire::lockfile) {
  &Header::openbox( 'Waiting', 1, "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='10;'>" );
  print <<END;