Comment # 16 on bug 1006200 from Neil Rickert

>I have also noticed, with several recent installs, that this problem
>does not show up in a KVM install.  It only occurs in a bare-metal install.

It turns out that I was mistaken.

It occurred to me that all of my KVM installs have been from an iso (virtual
DVD), while all of my bare metal installs have used a USB flash drive, with the
DVD installer written to that USB drive.

So I managed to do a KVM install from a USB.  And, with that install, the
problem did show up.  I paused the VM at that point and took a screen shot.  I
have uploaded the screenshot and will shortly upload the Yast logs for that
install.

In the screenshot, the main information panel shows "saving the software
manager configuration".  Below that is a line where it shows as "Downloading
patterns-kde-kde".

When I do the same kind of KVM install from an iso, that lower line just says
"Downloading" and does not say what is being downloaded (probably repo
metadata).  Installing from a USB, it instead says it is downloading whatever
was the last package previously installed.