Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 350221
Umlauts are locking backspace key in TUI dialog window
Last modified: 2008-02-01 11:15:03 EST
Description of problem: When typing a umlaut e.g. a "ö" in the directory field at the http setup TUI dialog window, backspace key will be locked. Workaround is to click on "Back" to get a usable http setup TUI dialog window during repeating the step. The selected language setting was English with a German keyboard. As this is a common setting in Germany, this has to work, because "äöü" is near the "Enter" key and it's likely that umlauts are pressed by mistake. The problem was solved for Fedora 7 (as per bug #206697) but it is not fixed for RHEL5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.1.2.36-1 How reproducible: Everytime, see above. Actual results: Umlauts are locking backspace key in TUI dialog window. Expected results: No locking, normal use of backspace key to delete the umlaut.
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And? Please go and fix it for RHEL 5.1, 5.2, etc. as long as RHEL5 not reached the maintainence phase. Thank you. Florian...can you please have a look to it, because it's a very annoying fix that can be solved easily. IIRC anaconda gets updates from one dot release to another.
We cannot simply fix every bug that is reported through Bugzilla. We have a finite amount of resources for each release and we have to prioritize bugs for RHEL as they are reported through the appropriate channels. Since this particular bug is already fixed in Fedora, we can marked it as CLOSED NEXTRELEASE because that fix will make it in to RHEL-6. If you need this fix in a RHEL-5 release, you need to contact the RHEL support services team.
I don't write bug reports for fun. There already exists a service request containing the same since March 25, 2007 - but nobody just from Red Hat, Inc. cares about. Is that what you meant with priorizing bugs by the appropriate channels? Status Waiting on Red Hat Reported On 25-MAR-2007 19:20:00 Confirmation: Service Request Created: 1778658-Umlauts are locking backspace key in TUI dialog window [...] 25-OCT-2007 13:59:55 Urgency changes from "4-Low" to "2-High". Well, the time you spent for annoying me this time, you could already have used to backport the fix and solve this issue as expected by me. I've no problem to reopen this report again. Florian...any comment from you?
If a support ticket is open, you need to use that to get the issue escalated for RHEL engineering.
This issue is related to newt, and has already been addressed for rhel5, see 249717 for the details of the backport.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249717 ***