Description of problem: When creating a new partition, using the text installer, pressing the page up on the 'Allowable Drives' option causes anaconda to crash instantly. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start installer in text mode 2.Create a new partition 3.Make 'Allowable drives' the active widget 4.Press pgup
If you're getting a traceback, could you attach it to this bug?
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No, I'm not getting a traceback. Just 'installer exited normally' etc. There's a few 'File Descriptor Left' open messages in the VT. The bug can be reproduced 100% of the time on RHEL4 U0 and is repeatedly coming up from GLS customers.
Er, 'abnormally', even.
More info: PgDown just once also causes a crash.
The problem here is that when the specificed height of a CheckboxTree is larger than the length of the list of items, ct->firstItem is invalid in checkboxtree.c:ctDraw. Minimal reproducer is attached.
Created attachment 119642 [details] Test case for crashing on CheckboxTree size
The version of newt in fedora core development should be fixed now. I'll attach the patch fixing this issue in newt 0.52.2 shortly.
Created attachment 123314 [details] newt-0.52.2-pgupdown-crash.patch The Fedora Core development patch to fix this issue. (Backported patch against RHEL4 will be provided later).
The patch turns out to apply cleanly on RHEL4 version of newt as well, so it can be used unmodified. In my limited testing, it seems to work well (no crashes with the testcase).
This issue is on Red Hat Engineering's list of planned work items for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 release. Engineering resources have been assigned and barring unforeseen circumstances, Red Hat intends to include this item in the 4.4 release.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0309.html