From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run setup in graphical mode 2. Proceed through setup 3. Setup crashes every time Actual Results: Initial setup works fine, running in graphical mode. I choose custom install, partition the disk, and select package groups with no problem. As soon as I try to advance past the package groups screen, the install fails. There are 15 or so errors that look like this: ----------------------------------------------------------- Gtk-CRITICAL gtkstyle.c:<line #> (<function name>) assertion 'window != NULL' failed Gdk-CRITICAL gdkwindow.c:<line #> (<function name>) assertion 'window != NULL' failed ----------------------------------------------------------- Followed by ----------------------------------------------------------- Install exited abnormally ----------------------------------------------------------- The installer then ejects my CD and tells me I can reboot. Expected Results: Uh...the installer should proceed normally, I guess. It works fine in text mode setup. Additional info: System details: Athlon 1.4 @ 200 MHz FSB MSI KT7 Pro2-A (KT133 chipset) mobo 2 x 512 MB ECC RAM ATI Radeon 64MB DDR 2 x 45 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM HDD Generic 16X DVD Yamaha 20x10x40 CD-RW Generic 1.4 FDD Creative SBLive Platinum Intel Pro 100+ NIC Partitions: [hda1](hda2[hda5][hda6])[hda3] hda1 - 50 MB FAT16 for boot manager (System Commander) hda2 - extended hda3 - 35 GB NTFS for WinXP hda5 - 9 GB ext2 hda6 - 700 MB swap
Hmm...did you click the "Hide Help" button at any point in the installer?
Yes, I click Hide Help right away.
Ok. This has already been reported in bug #54947. A workaround is to not hide the help until after the first screen. What's happening is that when you click "Next" for the language screen, the installer sets the font in the help screen. Well, if you've already clicked "Hide Help", then the help text widget doesn't exist. Trying to set the font for a non-existent widget causes a crash. This has already been fixed in cvs, but for now, simply not clicking "Hide Help" until after the language screen should avoid the problem. If this doesn't work around the problem, please reopen this bug report.