Bug 742613
| Summary: | [PATCH] Anaconda text is cut in half with graphics adapter, ppc64 | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Brent Baude <bbaude> | ||||||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, atodorov, gansalmon, ingvar, itamar, jonathan, karsten, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, twoerner, vanmeeuwen+fedora, wwoods | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Hardware: | ppc64 | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-01-20 15:32:10 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 718272 | ||||||||||||
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Description
Brent Baude
2011-09-30 18:57:04 UTC
Created attachment 525808 [details]
screenshot of anaconda
What graphics chip is in use on this machine? we see this on a matrox g400 warp and ATI Radeon 9600 Here's the package repo that was used to create the 0929 install iso: http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/mash/branched-20110929/16/ppc64/os/Packages/ This is not a new issue and not related to any recent package changes, I've seen this for quite a while now. Do we think this might be the culprit? [ 14.507812] systemd-vconsole-setup[351]: /bin/loadkeys failed with error code 1. [ 14.509097] systemd-vconsole-setup[351]: /bin/setfont failed with error code 1. Probably not. I'm guessing those errors happen because /bin/loadkeys and /bin/setfont don't exist - which is fine for the moment, because loader is going to set up the keymap/font by itself. So: this is almost certainly a problem with loading the screenfont. The file that loader wants to load (/etc/screenfont.gz) is some magical, special screenfont file from the anaconda package, specifically for ppc64. Maybe that file is no good anymore? What would be a reasonable font file to try instead? (Possibly we should just install loadkeys/setfont and let systemd handle it like it does on a normal system, but then we have to figure out how to make systemd change the font/keymap once you've picked a new font/keymap in loader..) several issues here: - we can't use the 32bit screenfont as there's a pointer to the unipair entries that's wrong on 64bit - snarffont.c writes the cfo structure twice - desc array in isysLoadFont() in pyanaconda/isys/lang.c was to small - desc array needs to be 4 byte aligned Created attachment 529270 [details]
fix for snarffont, fix for alignment problems
Created attachment 529271 [details]
screenfont for ppc64
Created attachment 529277 [details]
updated fix for snarffont, fix for alignment problems
Comment on attachment 529277 [details]
updated fix for snarffont, fix for alignment problems
the alignment fix is from Thomas Wörner
Ignore this comment, the array size is correct: - desc array in isysLoadFont() in pyanaconda/isys/lang.c was to small Thanks for looking into this, everyone. Ideally, any fix for this problem also involves removing our own screen font crud and just doing whatever the installed system would do, too. anaconda has had this kind of special environment stuff (and all its associated problems) for far too long. See also: bug 743429 I've removed our font loading code in favor of just letting systemd load the real font files. Let me know if there are other problems here. Thanks. Just wanted to let you know: This is not a ppc64 specific bug. It also appears when I boot the 32bit F16 Alpha ppc image on my Apple G3 eMac. Graphics card: ATI Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]. Ingvar This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping |