Bug 483061

Summary: text mode background (blue) screen displays console messages
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robert M Williams <rwilliam>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: anaconda-maint-list, jlaska, kbaxley
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Description Robert M Williams 2009-01-29 15:12:25 UTC
Created attachment 330363 [details]
screenshot of one type of error message

Description of problem:
during text mode install, error/status messages appear at various times
on the 'blue background' screen
these are partially overwritten when the next dialog popup appears

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
each time in text mode

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot installer
2.enter text as kernel option
3.proceed with install
  
Actual results:
various text messages appear on backgound

Expected results:
messages only appear in dialog boxes

Additional info:
the messages seem to be error/warning

Comment 1 James Laska 2009-01-29 15:13:52 UTC
I see the same when doing a VNC install

14:44:59 Starting VNC...                                                       
14:45:00 The VNC server is now running.
14:45:00 

WARNING!!! VNC server running with NO PASSWORD!
You can use the vncpassword=<password> boot option
if you would like to secure the server.


14:45:00 Please manually connect your vnc client to test1249.test.redhat.com:1 (192.168.34.249) to begin the install.
Press <enter> for a shell
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1.0".
14:45:01 Starting graphical installation...
iscsiadm: Could not read fw values.
iscsiadm: no records found!
iscsiadm: Could not read fw values.
iscsiadm: no records found!

Comment 2 Kent Baxley 2009-01-29 15:17:00 UTC
Here's an example of one of the messages I'm seeing.  This popped up at the
bottom of the screen during the "Package Installation" phase:

warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig')
/usr/lib/python2.6/sets.py:85:  DeprecationWarning: functions overriding
warnings.showwarning() must support the 'line'argument
   stacklevel=2)

Comment 3 Andy Lindeberg 2009-02-12 16:38:59 UTC
The interface for text mode has been almost completely redone. Could you retest and let us know if you still see the messages?

Comment 4 Andy Lindeberg 2009-06-08 17:49:32 UTC
With no contradictory evidence, this seems to have been fixed in rawhide. Please reopen if you run into the same problem again.