Bug 886120 - initial screen is sometimes missing text
Summary: initial screen is sometimes missing text
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-11 14:52 UTC by Kamil Páral
Modified: 2013-04-02 14:49 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-04-01 20:09:19 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
corrupted initial screen (88.66 KB, image/png)
2012-12-11 14:52 UTC, Kamil Páral
no flags Details
also corrupted initial screen (99.49 KB, image/png)
2012-12-11 14:53 UTC, Kamil Páral
no flags Details
proper initial screen (111.24 KB, image/png)
2012-12-11 14:53 UTC, Kamil Páral
no flags Details
corrupted main hub screen (54.54 KB, image/png)
2012-12-12 10:45 UTC, Kamil Páral
no flags Details

Description Kamil Páral 2012-12-11 14:52:43 UTC
Created attachment 661496 [details]
corrupted initial screen

Description of problem:
I sometimes see missing text in the initial language screen, see screenshots. I have seen in only on bare metal (two different computers), never VM. I have seen it only with pxeboot and inst.repo=http://, I wasn't able to reproduce it with netinst.

I think it is a problem with gtk loop, maybe some threading issue?

If I switch to tty1 and back, the missing text is restored.

Very occasionally I see missing text also in the partitioning screen near the disk icons (their descriptions are missing and appear on mouse click on that disk icon), but I'm not sure that's related.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F18 TC1
anaconda 18.36

How reproducible:
often (20-50% ?)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot anaconda on bare metal using pxeboot and inst.repo=http://
2. sometimes see some texts missing

Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2012-12-11 14:53:04 UTC
Created attachment 661497 [details]
also corrupted initial screen

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2012-12-11 14:53:38 UTC
Created attachment 661498 [details]
proper initial screen

Comment 3 Kamil Páral 2012-12-12 09:29:29 UTC
I just saw this issue twice when using DVD optical media, so it is not related to pxeboot.

Up to this point, I have always seen it on nvidia graphics card (different families). But the truth is I don't have a lot of other machines here to test with.

Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2012-12-12 10:45:15 UTC
Created attachment 662255 [details]
corrupted main hub screen

I always though this happens just for the initial language screen. But today I saw the same problem also in the main hub screen. Mouse over and clicking redraws the text.

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2012-12-12 15:55:01 UTC
ajax says this is a kernel bug, and he would certainly know better than I.

Comment 6 Josh Boyer 2013-04-01 20:09:19 UTC
OK, we're well past the point where we can fix this for F18 release and we don't respin release media.

If you see this again with the F19 Alpha, please reopen.

Comment 7 Kamil Páral 2013-04-02 14:49:54 UTC
I don't seem to hit it with F19 Alpha TC3 DVD i386.


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