Description of problem: With 20 Final TC4 and TC5, when using rescue mode and exiting rescue shell, instead of the menu, you get "Pane is dead". Other than that, rescue mode still works. This worked normally prior to TC4. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-20.25.13-1 and anaconda-20.25.14-1 How reproducible: always
I can reproduce this with F20 RC1. Anaconda tells you that the system will be rebooted after you exit the shell, but if you do, your "pane is dead" and you can't do anything. However, all your partitions are still mounted and if you force-reboot the PC, you might lose some data (you probably used rescue mode to save data, not lose it). Someone might argue that the inability to restart safely violates: "The rescue mode of the installer must be able to detect and mount any installation performed according to the applicable criteria, and provide a shell with access to utilities capable of performing typical recovery operations. " https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Beta_Release_Criteria#rescue-mode because the recovery operations might not work well in this case. Alternatively this might be accepted as a freeze exception if we slip. Proposing for discussion. The workaround here is to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete or switch to second pane using Ctrl+b 2 (or tty2) and run "reboot" there. Not very obvious. But people performing rescue operations in shell might be usually capable of discovering that. Also, I assume that there needs to be no additional magic done before rebooting.
Discussed at Go/No-Go meeting on 2013-12-12 [1]. This is a RejectedBlocker and an AcceptedFreezeException. This bug is not considered to block release. A fix will be considered sometime. [1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2013-12-12/
In the "old" rescue mode, even if you selected "skip", you were still presented with a menu to get to the shell prompt or to reboot. This has been eliminated which is probably no great loss but this "Pane is dead" is going to confuse some folks. Q: why eliminate that menu?
Vratislav, I ran into what I think is this problem while running a Beaker provision on cisco-e160dp-01.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com. The job fails with Pane is dead. I've tried both Fedora-20 and Fedora-20-Alpha and both show the problem. https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/647926 https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/647762 Thanks, Arthur
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This same problem occurred with Fedora 22 testing. If the disk scanner to determine partitions and free space has not completed, or is in the early part of it's process, there will be a warning window presented. If the response to this message is before the scan has completed, it will appear with a bright white background, no text, and subsequently, "Pane is dead" The circumvention, is to wait for the "disk active" LED light to stop flashing. Flashing indicates a disk scan is in process, and if one steps through Anaconda at this time, the "Pane is dead" will must likely occur. Perform a validation check that the burning of the flash drive or CD/DVD has been done without error. The extra delay taken to check the Fedora source media will make harmless the "Pane is dead" problem. Alternately, wait for the disk activity LED to stop flashing before responding to Anaconda's installation language selection. Still a Problem with Fedora 22.
We would like to rewrite the rescue mode from ncurses/newt to our framework for text mode and this should be resolved as part of the rewrite.
In any case, it's clearly not the same bug, as described.
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