Bug 67972

Summary: Text-mode installer drawing problems
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Andreas Thienemann <andreas>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: limboCC: brian, tao
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screenshot of installer showing problem with the border drawing
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Description Andreas Thienemann 2002-07-04 23:22:04 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513

Description of problem:
When running the text-mode installer, the "window borders" and "buttons" are not
correctly drawn. (See attached screenshots)
They do look somewhat "inverted".

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. choose text at the boot prompt
2. lean back and enjoy
3.
	

Actual Results:  Strangely drawn userinterface

Expected Results:  correctly drawn userinterface

Additional info:

This bug happens only in the second part of the anaconda installer. The first
one, which is read from the bootimage displays correctly. The second part, which
is in my case (netinstall) loaded from the ftp server behaves strangely as
described above.

N.B. this bug occured while running in a VMware virtual machine. I haven't tried
yet to see if it happens also on different hardware with or without vmware.Gonna
try this.

Attached screenshots show the problem. Please note that in the second screenshot
"yes" is actually selected and not the "no" button as one might assume.
Comment 1 Andreas Thienemann 2002-07-04 23:23:00 UTC 
Created attachment 63684 [details]
screenshot of installer showing problem with the border drawing
Comment 2 Andreas Thienemann 2002-07-04 23:24:54 UTC 
Created attachment 63685 [details]
screenshot of installer showing problem with button drawing
Comment 3 Sam Varshavchik 2002-07-05 16:55:51 UTC 
This bug is reproducible on an ordinary TUI install.  VMWare is not a factor.
Comment 4 Marius Andreiana 2002-07-08 10:25:54 UTC 
Seems like it's a general ncurses problem. After install, I get strange colors
in text applications like 'ntsysv'.
Comment 5 Jay Turner 2002-07-08 17:46:32 UTC 
*** Bug 68181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-10 00:28:00 UTC 
Known UTF-8 issues with slang/minislang.
Comment 7 Jay Turner 2002-07-10 05:49:57 UTC 
*** Bug 68289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Jeremy Katz 2002-07-30 04:33:52 UTC 
*** Bug 67902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Jeremy Katz 2002-07-30 04:34:53 UTC 
Fixed by going back to minislang in anaconda
Comment 10 Jeff Needle 2002-08-15 16:16:12 UTC 
*** Bug 71588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Jeff Needle 2002-08-15 18:32:51 UTC 
*** Bug 71588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Mike McLean 2002-08-16 18:42:08 UTC 
Haven't seen this in a while.
CLOSED->RAWHIDE