Bug 891755
| Summary: | Welcome dialog not displayed on Fedora-18-TC4 Live CD | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steve Tyler <stephent98> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brian Lane <bcl> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 18 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, awilliam, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, jones.peter.busi, robatino, sbueno, stephent98, tflink, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | i18n, Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Whiteboard: | AcceptedNTH | ||
| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-18.37.10-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-01-08 21:32:40 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 752661, 752665 | ||
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Description
Steve Tyler
2013-01-03 21:44:25 UTC
Proposing as F18Blocker, because the language cannot be selected. No, this is not a blocker nor is it a bug. In the live environment, you should use the environment-provided language selection before running anaconda. You need to do that anyway to get the live environment displayed in your preferred language. What "environment-provided language selection"? The Welcome dialog has been displayed in previous versions[1], so is this a last-minute change in critical functionality? Anyway, why shouldn't the Welcome dialog be displayed for the friendly "Welcome" that is provides? :-) [1] See Comment 0: "Fedora-18-TC3 Live CD after updating to anaconda-18.37.8-1.fc18" Chris: there is no particularly easy way to change the live language these days - it used to be there in gdm when booting live, it isn't any more. You have to go into GNOME control center, and change the language, and then you have to log out and back in, only there's no way to log out by default on the live image because GNOME doesn't think you have to log out any more, so...it's a whole bunch of fail described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855697 , basically. Anyway, all previous 18 builds have shown the Welcome screen in anaconda in live and there was no NTH or blocker bug for 'drop the welcome screen' to justify it changing between TC3 and TC4, so on the face of it, this certainly seems to be a bug. confirm the bug in TC4. bcl theorizes it's to do with the flip from 'pre-release' to 'release' status in fedora-release (which should stop the display of the 'timbuktu' warning, but not the language screen). Thanks for reopening, Adam. When the Live CD is started, a dialog with a huge "Install to Hard Drive" button is displayed on the desktop. After clicking that button, the installer window covers the entire desktop, leaving the user with no clue as to how to select the install language. An experienced Gnome3 user would know to click Activities, click the Show Applications icon, click System Tools, click System Settings, click Region & Language, click the "+" button to add a language, etc. Not very welcoming, when you actually try it ... bcl's theory can't be correct, as the betanag switch was not flipped for TC4. betanag switch is not part of fedora-release but a compile-time switch that releng flips when building the images. So that's not it. "An experienced Gnome3 user would know to click Activities, click the Show Applications icon, click System Tools, click System Settings, click Region & Language, click the "+" button to add a language, etc" it gets better - per 855697, the 'etc' includes 'force a logout/login somehow'. Or, of course, you can simply open a console and run LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 liveinst, surely everyone knows THAT ;) I think, practically speaking, we need the Welcome dialog back, given the current state of GNOME. Even if it's 'not supposed to be there'. +1 NTH from me. I'm definitely +1 NTH on this and close to +1 blocker if it's really that difficult to change the language used during install from a livecd. New info: apparently the bug really *is* betanag (for Live, betanag state depends on fedora-release, not the switch releng flips, so in TC4, the Lives are 'final' but the DVD / netinst are 'betanag'), bcl has a fix for it lined up. I'm +1 blocker and obviously +1 nth on this one, setting AcceptedNTH with the above votes. anaconda-18.37.10-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-18.37.10-1.fc18 Confirmed the dialog is back with -10 (did a custom live compose). Likewise verifying that the Welcome dialog is displayed, and language selection is possible from the Live CD: Information for build anaconda-18.37.10-1.fc18 ID 376453 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=376453 $ qemu-kvm -m 2048 -hda f18-test-1.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F18/F18-Final/TC4/Fedora-18-TC4-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso -usb -vga qxl -boot menu=on -usbdevice mouse anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18 anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |