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Since the rebase to Qt 6.11, it appears that accessing native HTML dropdown menus (dropdown comboboxes) can cause the application to crash. This has significant negative effects, particularly if someone wants to use custom storage partitioning through Cockpit during installation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install slitherer 2. Launch slitherer as such: slitherer --windowed "https://www.patternfly.org/components/forms/form-select" 3. Open dropdown menus to attempt to select something Actual Results: Browser window crashes Expected Results: Drop down opens and selection is possible
As a consequence, Anaconda crashes in Cockpit storage editor in F44 and Rawhide under all environments except Workstation (where it uses Firefox, not slitherer). See bug 2404424#c24 . Reproducer: Run Anaconda on KDE/XFCE/etc Live, go to Storage Editor, pick a partition, click Format. In the dialog, use any drop-down (e.g. Type), and start opening it and selecting values repeatedly. After a couple of tries, Anaconda crashes. Workaround: Before running anaconda, edit /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf and change `webui_web_engine = slitherer` to `webui_web_engine = firefox`. Run `liveinst` to start anaconda.
So in the latest Rawhide environment I've got, it doesn't crash, but the drop-down flickers and doesn't persist, so I can't select anything.
A common issue: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/common-issue/192590
Proposing as F45 beta blocker: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Beta_Release_Criteria#Custom_partitioning (Note that similar bug 2404424 was accepted as a blocker previously).
I've submitted an upstream bug to Qt: https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTBUG-147154
Note we'd like to add an openQA test to prevent future bugs like this, but we kinda can't until this is fixed, as we need the full process to *work* in order to verify the test. https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/issues/561#issuecomment-794938