From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 Description of problem: In the text installer, after choosing the keyboard type and before the complete list of mouse selections is displayed, a message `gzlib: stdout: Broken pipe' is printed on the screen. Sometimes it's printed before the screen is cleared for the Mouse selection screen; sometimes it's displayed after some mouse options and remains. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Choose say US as the keyboard type 2.Enter `ok'. 3.Look for the message on teh screen. 4.If you find it, end 5.Choose Back 6.go to step 1 Actual Results: The ugly error message is there on the screen. Expected Results: IMHO, it should not. In fact, I suggest investigating why such an error message is being printed in the first place. Additional info:
Still present in beta2.
Should be fixed now by not using gzlib for anything in stage2
verified fixed.