Created attachment 791629 [details] password-input-extremely-slow.ogv Fedora 20 Alpha TC2 netinstall in qemu: ionice -c 3 qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -m 2048M -smp 4 -drive file=./Fedora-20-Alpha-TC2-x86_64-netinst.iso.qcow2,index=0,media=disk,cache=unsafe -localtime -serial file:/tmp/qemu-Fedora-20-Alpha-TC2-x86_64-netinst.iso.qcow2-output.log -name Fedora-20-Alpha-TC2-x86_64-netinst.iso.qcow2 -cdrom /local/mfabian/iso/Fedora-20-Alpha-TC2/Fedora-20-Alpha-TC2-x86_64-netinst.iso -boot c -spice port=6000,disable-ticketing -vga cirrus -display vnc=:4 -net nic -net user,hostname=Fedora-20-Alpha-TC2-x86_64-netinst.iso.qcow2,hostfwd=tcp::5556-:22 -monitor stdio -usb I selected “Japanese” on the first screen, accepted all other defaults and started the installation. While the installation was running, I used two buttons above the progress bar to enter a root password and to create a user. Both for entering the root password and the user password, typing is *extremely* slow. When I create the user, I can type fast in the fields for the full user name and the account name. But typing some stuff into the password field is very slow. It is especially easy to notice when typing a long password fast, deleting it, and typing it again. See the attached video. The long pauses in the video, where nothing seems to happen, are when I am waiting that the keys I have already typed occur in the password entry field. You can see that when I deleted everything in the top one of the 2 password fields again and type testing it stops at ••••i and after a *very* long pause, the “ng” characters finally appear as well. After that I quickly try to type some more characters, again they appear only after a long wait.
The delay is due to the cracklib package changing to compressed dictionaries and libpwquality decompressing it on each check() call.