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Bug 2109231 - User input in driver disk menu is not displayed
Summary: User input in driver disk menu is not displayed
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 9.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
Sagar Dubewar
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 2221885 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 2071990
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-07-20 17:53 UTC by Jiri Kortus
Modified: 2023-09-18 16:00 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Known Issue
Doc Text:
.Driver disk menu fails to display user inputs on the console When you start RHEL installation using the `inst.dd` option on the Kernel command line with a driver disk, the console fails to display the user input. Consequently, it appears that the application does not respond to the user input and freezes, but displays the output which is confusing for users. However, this behavior does not affect the functionality, and user input gets registered after pressing `Enter`. As a workaround, to see the expected results, ignore the absence of user inputs in the console and press `Enter` when you finish adding inputs.
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-09-18 15:59:45 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Issue Tracker   RHEL-4737 0 None Migrated None 2023-09-18 15:59:43 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-128530 0 None None None 2022-07-20 17:56:19 UTC

Description Jiri Kortus 2022-07-20 17:53:04 UTC 
Description of problem:
Driver disk menu in RHEL-9.1 doesn't print what the user enters. This can be quite confusing as the user may think that the menu is entirely broken or has frozen (because no user input is echoed back), until enter is pressed:

(Page 1 of 1) Driver disk device selection
    /DEVICE  TYPE     LABEL                UUID
 1) sr0      iso9660  RHEL-9-1-0-BaseOS-x8 2022-07-17-00-48-01-00
 2) sda2     LVM2_mem                      lx126c-ooBl-cdlP-vrkR-cLOh-im0s-UFE6
 3) sda5     LVM2_mem                      eHHdfq-ncam-4ZlS-gBXg-wMjb-fuBn-ql1f
 4) sda3     xfs                           9c83e053-1d78-459a-98b0-fce83a2b1de1
 5) sda1     xfs                           0ab92ae1-d0b0-4934-9e6f-1ffedae4bbeb
 6) sr1      iso9660                       2022-07-18-03-31-37-00
# to select, 'r'-refresh, or 'c'-continue: Invalid selection '66666'

(Page 1 of 1) Driver disk device selection
    /DEVICE  TYPE     LABEL                UUID
 1) sr0      iso9660  RHEL-9-1-0-BaseOS-x8 2022-07-17-00-48-01-00
 2) sda2     LVM2_mem                      lx126c-ooBl-cdlP-vrkR-cLOh-im0s-UFE6
 3) sda5     LVM2_mem                      eHHdfq-ncam-4ZlS-gBXg-wMjb-fuBn-ql1f
 4) sda3     xfs                           9c83e053-1d78-459a-98b0-fce83a2b1de1
 5) sda1     xfs                           0ab92ae1-d0b0-4934-9e6f-1ffedae4bbeb
 6) sr1      iso9660                       2022-07-18-03-31-37-00
# to select, 'r'-refresh, or 'c'-continue: DD: Examining /dev/sr1
mount: /media/DD-2: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only.

(Page 1 of 1) Select drivers to install
 1) [ ] /media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-e1000e-1.0.1_dup7.4a-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
 2) [ ] /media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-virtio_blk-1.0.1_dup7.4a-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
# to toggle selection, or 'c'-continue: 
(Page 1 of 1) Select drivers to install
 1) [x] /media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-e1000e-1.0.1_dup7.4a-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
 2) [ ] /media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-virtio_blk-1.0.1_dup7.4a-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
# to toggle selection, or 'c'-continue: DD: Extracting: kmod-redhat-e1000e

(Page 1 of 1) Driver disk device selection
    /DEVICE  TYPE     LABEL                UUID
 1) sr0      iso9660  RHEL-9-1-0-BaseOS-x8 2022-07-17-00-48-01-00
 2) sda2     LVM2_mem                      lx126c-ooBl-cdlP-vrkR-cLOh-im0s-UFE6
 3) sda5     LVM2_mem                      eHHdfq-ncam-4ZlS-gBXg-wMjb-fuBn-ql1f
 4) sda3     xfs                           9c83e053-1d78-459a-98b0-fce83a2b1de1
 5) sda1     xfs                           0ab92ae1-d0b0-4934-9e6f-1ffedae4bbeb
 6) sr1      iso9660                       2022-07-18-03-31-37-00
# to select, 'r'-refresh, or 'c'-continue: 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-34.25.1.9-1.el9 / RHEL-9.1-20220718.0

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start RHEL-9.1 installation with 'inst.dd' on kernel command line and a driver disk present.
2. When the driver disk menu shows up, try to enter something.
3. Hit enter.

Actual results:
Nothing the user enters shows up on the console. When enter is pressed, the actual input is confirmed (which most likely will result in an error as the user may try to enter the same input several times).

Expected results:
Anything the user enters is printed on the console, so that the interaction between the user and the TUI works with a proper feedback.
Comment 2 Jan Stodola 2023-07-11 08:50:47 UTC 
*** Bug 2221885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 shangsong2 2023-07-11 09:19:04 UTC 
Hi ,
  The issue's been going on for a long time and no update, is it a fix plan/schedule on the way?

Thanks, 
Song
Comment 4 Jiri Konecny 2023-07-13 09:28:39 UTC 
Hi Song,

the UI is responsive even though the UX is not good, so the priority is not high. I'm not happy about this state because it's pretty annoying, but this issue has a high probability to be a time sink for debugging to discover the root cause and we don't have time to spare right now.
Comment 5 shangsong2 2023-07-13 11:21:34 UTC 
Hi Jiri,
  I am  very understand your sence, is it possible create a knowledge base to let user know this issue?

Thanks,
Song
Comment 6 Jiri Konecny 2023-07-17 08:58:43 UTC 
Good point about documenting this. Sagar could you please take a look on this to document it as known issue?
Comment 10 Sagar Dubewar 2023-07-26 13:27:22 UTC 
(In reply to Jiri Konecny from comment #6)
> Good point about documenting this. Sagar could you please take a look on
> this to document it as known issue?

Documentation is complete and no more updates are required from the documentation side:

RHEL 9.1 Release Notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/9.1_release_notes/index#known-issue_installer-and-image-creation

RHEL 9.2 Release Notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/9.2_release_notes/index#known-issues

thank you all for collaboration :)
Comment 11 Jiri Konecny 2023-07-26 13:32:15 UTC 
Returning back to NEW the MODIFIED state was set from the documentation PoV but it's not reflecting the bug status.
Comment 12 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-18 15:57:44 UTC 
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