Bug 972858
| Summary: | anaconda "Please complete items marked" message when not needed | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Russ Anderson <rja> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, dshea, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, peterm, sbueno, stephent98, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-08-08 00:02:02 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 920743 | ||||||||
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Description
Russ Anderson
2013-06-10 16:23:11 UTC
Created attachment 759268 [details]
screen snap showing the error message
Add to the rhel7 tracker. The version you are using is missing the orange triangles (they are grey in your image), you need to either set a root pw or setup a user and you haven't done either. The final release has the correct icons. (In reply to Brian C. Lane from comment #3) > The version you are using is missing the orange triangles (they are grey in > your image), you need to either set a root pw or setup a user and you > haven't done either. The final release has the correct icons. The resolution here should be CURRENTRELEASE, instead of NOTABUG. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status Hi Brian. Apparently I was not clear about the problem. There seems to be two actions going on on the screen. One is that the packages are being installed. The other is a message asking for user input before continuing. The confusion is that the package installation messages makes it look like the install is continuing while the yellow "Please complete the items marked" message makes it look like user action is needed to continue. It is not clear that the user name and password can be set by the user while the packages are installing. Now that Anaconda is multi-threaded, it is really important to make sure messages are clear as to which (of the several actions) the message is referring to. Since you are familiar with Anaconda, it may seem obvious to you. But for me, coming from the old Anaconda world where one thing happens at a time, it was confusing. Created attachment 774004 [details]
[F19 Final DVD] screenshot showing configuration hub during package installation
For reference, here is the configuration hub during package installation from the F19 Final DVD. Orange triangles mark the root password and user creation links.
Tested with:
$ qemu-kvm -m 4096 -hda f19-test-2.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F19/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso -vga std -boot menu=on
The message at the bottom of the screen says: "Please complete items marked with this icon before continuing to the next step." What is the name of "this icon"? Russ: Do you interpret the orange triangle as signifying an error? > Russ: Do you interpret the orange triangle as signifying an error?
Yes. I interpret it as something that the user has done wrong. It also strikes me as rude for Anaconda to complain that a root password and user have not been created BEFORE giving the user a chance to create them.
Why not ask the user to create a root password and user before complaining that it hasn't been done?
Reopen. The problem isn't grey vs orange triangles. The problem is a confusing interface. Good points. When the installer tells the user to "complete items marked with this icon", it is misleading the user as to what actually needs to be done to complete the install: The root password can be set OR An administrator user can be created. That is, both marked items do not need to be completed. If a non-administrator user is created, however, a root password must be set to complete the install. Tested with: $ qemu-kvm -m 4096 -hda f19-test-2.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F19/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso -vga std -boot menu=on |