Bug 750838

Summary: "Check media" (advanced boot option) exposes keyboard interrupts to KDM, leading to session start fail.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Xavier Hourcade <public.oss>
Component: LiveCD - KDEAssignee: Sebastian Vahl <fedora>
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Version: 16CC: kevin, public.oss, rdieter
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Description Xavier Hourcade 2011-11-02 13:54:01 UTC
Description of problem:

"Check media" (advanced boot option) exposes keyboard interrupts to KDM, leading to session start fail.

If selecting advanced boot option to "check media then launch Fedora", then at any stage during KDM session preparation (from first icon being displayed in the splash screen), pressing eg. [Enter] restarts X and leads to failure of the LiveCD session start.

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

Fedora Live 16 KDE RC2 RC3 RC4 (didn't try earlier images)

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from LiveCD
2. Select Troubleshooting/Check media then launch
3. Let the pass complete, or [Esc] to cancel
4. Let KDM splash start
5. Press [Enter]
  
Actual results:

6.  X seems to terminate with failure
7.  Initial "check media" shows up briefly and keyboard interrupt
    is printed to it, adding control chars eg. "]'" 
8.  KDM is restarted, login screen appears
    ("liveuser" pre-filled as user name)
9.  Pressing [Enter] again fails to open a session, but loops to step a.
10. Pressing [Enter] faster twice (i.e. during b.)
    will stop KDM to be restarted (stay forever at step b.)

Expected results:

None : [Enter] key is safely ignored, KDM keeps loading session

Additional info:

Hardware is Asus V1S laptop.

There is no such behaviour unless choosing the media check option.
In normal boot, [Enter] key is safely ignored.

I noticed this while experiencing abnormal delay with sound warning played, during KDM session preparation. LiveCD is functional on this laptop, despite other issue.

See attachments (screen caps and logs) in bug 750423

Comment 1 Xavier Hourcade 2011-11-03 19:26:19 UTC
Still current in RC5.

Correcting "Actual results:"

6.  X seems to terminate with failure
7.  Initial "check media" shows up briefly and keyboard interrupt
    is printed to it, adding control chars eg. "]'" 
8.  KDM is restarted, login screen appears
    ("liveuser" pre-filled as user name)
9.  Pressing [Enter] again fails to open a session, but loops to step 6.
10. Pressing [Enter] faster twice (i.e. during step 7.)
    will stop KDM to be restarted (stay forever at step 7.)

Comment 2 Xavier Hourcade 2011-11-04 08:13:01 UTC
Created attachment 531720 [details]
(ugly) picture of tty0 at steps 7 and 10

Comment 3 Xavier Hourcade 2011-11-04 08:13:49 UTC
Created attachment 531721 [details]
(ugly) picture of tty0 at steps 7 and 10 (zoom)

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