Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 122605
accidental triple-clicks kill the installer dead
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:42 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040301 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Accidentally clicking the "Next" button two-three (or more) times in succession, rather than just once, can trigger weird tracebacks and completely kill the installation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.93-0.20040430011915 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Begin an install. 2. [Optional?] Reinstall rather than upgrade, if you are offered the option. Do a "Custom" install. 3. [Optional?] At the package selection screen, choose "Minimal". 4. Instead of clicking "Next" once on the package selection screen, rapidly click it many times. (I discovered the issue because I clicked Next 3 times rapidly by accident.) Actual Results: Install proceeds, and maybe even reboots without further user intervention (hey, the button did get clicked a zillion times, it's reasonable for anaconda to respond to all of those clicks) Expected Results: Weird tracebacks. I will attach two different tracebacks to this bug. (I may attach more, should I run into them.) Additional info:
Created attachment 100031 [details] anaconda dump from my first encounter with this bug FWIW, in this case I had "xfs" on the command line. However, the second dump (which I will upload in a few minutes) was reproduced without that option.
Created attachment 100032 [details] dump from another instance of this bug This time I did not use the "xfs" command line option. It exploded in a different place, but it exploded nonetheless.
Oops, I accidentally swapped "Actual" and "Expected" results when I created this bug. Sorry about that.
Alternate steps to reproduce (easier to perform and possibly more deterministic than the original steps): 1. See original bug report. 2. See original bug report. 3. Choose an "Everything" package selection. 4. While it's sitting there, quickly click on the Next button several times. 5. Sit back and wait for the traceback... Once the traceback appears on the screen, your mouse may even stop functioning and you may have to use the keyboard for navigation.
Created attachment 101779 [details] a traceback from anaconda-10.0.1-2 (I typed this one up by hand because of bug 127064)
Created attachment 101893 [details] another traceback from anaconda 10.0.1-2 This is a different traceback than my previous one from anaconda 10.0.1-2. BTW, this is with "linux selinux=0".
Created attachment 101958 [details] a traceback from anaconda-10.0.2-0.20040713173734
Barry -- still seeing this?
Oops, somehow I missed comment #8 until now. I need to retest. I'll aim for doing it this weekend.
Created attachment 111158 [details] traceback from FC3 final (10.0.2-1) It took me only one try to reproduce on FC3 final. This is the traceback from that one attempt. I've downloaded RHEL 4 (WS and Desktop), and I'm downloading the latest fc-devel right now. I'll see if I can try one of those later this morning (although I may not be able to).
Created attachment 111160 [details] traceback from 2nd attempt on RHEL 4 WS (10.1.1.13-1) My first install with RHEL 4 WS was off CD's. That failed to reproduce the bug. My second install was over NFS, and that did reproduce it (and this attachment is the traceback). There's an extra dialog box with a CD install, telling you which CD's will be required. Perhaps that dialog box keeps the bug from happening in that case. IIRC my FC3-test installs which reproduced this bug were over NFS and HTTP. My FC3 traceback from earlier today was off a DVD. In the next couple of days I'll burn a set of FC3 install CD's and see if that fails the way the DVD did. fc-devel has finished downloading now. I'll try to test that (over NFS) later this morning, but I don't guarantee that I'll get around to it.
I cannot reproduce this on fc-devel. In fact, I'm seeing what could be considered the opposite problem: After clicking Next on one screen, on the following screen I sometimes have to move the mouse pointer off the Next button and back onto the Next button before that button responds to mouse clicks again. (At least this doesn't bring the entire installer down, however.) Should I file another Bugzilla for that problem?
Barry, Yes please open another bug for having to move focus then click next. I'll try and figure what might have fixed this (I'm guessing X the mini-wm fixup). If I provide an updates.img for fc3 could you test it out?
Ok, I'll open another bug, but it might be a few days before I get around to it. Likewise, I can test an updates.img for FC3.
Thanks Barry. I'll get you an updates.img next week, post FOSDEM.
Closing due to inactivity. If this issue still occurs with current releases, please reopen and set the release in which you've encountered the problem.
Oops, I didn't notice this bug got closed. Reopening for FC3 (I was waiting for a response to comment #15). Regarding comment #14: I need to retest with a current rawhide.