If a system has a hardware problem that causes it to emit a "Press any key to continue" message during boot, this will show up in Beaker as a string of aborted jobs. If those jobs aren't using appropriately marked distros (see bug 654299), then the system won't be automatically marked as broken. This proposal is to add a new heuristic for automatically marking systems as broken: 1. The recipe is terminated by the external watchdog 2. The system doesn't reboot at all (install_start is never called on the lab controller) 3. The console log contains an entry matching one of the patterns: "Press any key to continue" "Press [Ee]nter to continue" "Press <(.*)> to continue" Such a heuristic could also be tweaked to detect the PXE boot menu coming up (indicating the machine isn't properly booting from the network). This should be configurable in a similar fashion to the PANIC_REGEX definition (BOOT_HANG_REGEX, perhaps?).
Anaconda may also hang with its text UI displayed to ask a question. This shows up in the console log as an ASCII-art display window, containing at least an ASCII art "OK" box and a bottom row of instructions indicating how to navigate the controls with the keyboard.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 952661 ***