Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 216157
Pressing the "Escape" key in anaconda causes the action associated with the default button to be executed
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:37 EST
Description of problem: If I press Esc in the textmode installer, it behaves like the default button was pressed. How reproducible: Each time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. At the boot prompt type "linux text" 2. When the text mode installer shows up press Esc Actual results: The installer executes the action associated with the default button i.e. in most cases it validates the data entered (if any) and moves to the next screen. Expected results: I guess the default action for Esc should be "Back".
On which screen in particular?
As I said above: After the kernel finishes loading, an the first text installer screen appears. In fact it is not anaconda itself but some pre-anaconda script/app.
This looks like a problem with newt. Line 474 in form.c in the newt source does this: /* TEST */ newtFormAddHotKey (co, NEWT_KEY_ESCAPE); Reading the function, it looks like this line should just be removed. Reassigning this bug to newt.
F12 key will cause the same problem. Handling return values from newt functions in anaconda looks like a better solution than disabling all hot keys.
Well, F12 is the key we mention at the bottom of the screen in loader as: <F12> next screen So that one should cause the same thing. Since the line above had the comment TEST next to it, it looked as something that wasn't supposed to be present in newt. We do check the return values of newt functions when there is one. newtRunForm() and newtWinMessage() have void return values. We use newtForms for a lot of things.
Ok, fixed in newt-0.52.5-1.fc7.
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