From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 Description of problem: I install RH9.0 in graphical mode. I proceed up to 'network configuration'. In that screen, you can configure the Network devices. I set them to 'activate on boot' and set the IP address using the dialog as I don't have DHCP. At that point, I should enter the 'hostname', the 'gateway' etc. However, this is impossible as those textfields do not get the keyboard focus! No cursor shows up, you can click all/anywhere you want. Pushing 'next' then gives you warnings that you forgot to set the 'hostname', the gateway etc... I proceed to the point where I have to enter the root password. The same problem occurs on the 'enter root password' dialog. Going back to the 'network configuration', I can still edit the interface IP addresses in the dialog box, but 'no go' for the other text fields on that page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: This is the first time that this happens to me. Actual Results: Textboxes were no longer 'focusable' except the ones of the dialog. Expected Results: Textboxes should be 'focusable' Additional info: Workaround: I right-clicked on the hostname text field and selected Insert Unicode control character Left to right mark. Plink! The cursor shows up and I can now edit as expected. There is possibly a problem with the initialization of the screen? Unfortunately, I could not test other widgets once the error was 'worked around'
This seems to be a duplicate of bug 71834, reported for RH 8.0, which is 'closed' This bug is undead!
This has been fixed in our development tree. The work around you discovered will work.