Bug 14471

Platform "all" is an assumption, but likely right one ;) Will check.

Whiteboard: (none) => 5beta1
CC: (none) => tmb
Hardware: x86_64 => All
Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Created attachment 5578 [details]
Screenshot showcasing the syslinux gibberish

CC: (none) => remi

Looking at the punctuation, I think it's meant to mean something, but somehow written in the standard galactical alphabet? http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Standard_Galactic_Alphabet

is it still valid ? Tried here with a very slow connection to catch it but all was ok. It seems to me it was fixed in previous release (deprecated option in isolinux.conf)

Yes I did see it with the last build of beta1

Seen again with gnome LiveDVD 64 bits built 11.12.2014.

Whiteboard: 5beta1 => 5beta2
Source RPM: syslinux-6.03-0.pre18.2 => syslinux-6.03-1

Still valid

Whiteboard: 5beta2 => 5beta3
Source RPM: syslinux-6.03-1 => syslinux-6.03-2

still valid when booting CD

Mageia-5-beta3-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso, Mon Feb  9 18:00:00 CET 2015

CC: (none) => westel

still valid when booting CD

Mageia-5-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso, Sat Mar 21 13:00:00 CET 2015

still valid when booting CD

Mageia-5-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso, fri april 10

valid 15th april isos

Still valid for isos of M6 dev1

Source RPM: syslinux-6.03-2 => syslinux-6.03-3
Summary: [m5b2] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish => [m6dev1] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish
Whiteboard: 5RC => 6dev1

valid for 

Mageia-6-dev1-LiveDVD-PLASMA5-i586-DVD.iso
DATE.txt: Sun Feb 28 07:30:00 CET 2016 

when in virtual-box

valid for:
Mageia-6-sta1-LiveDVD-PLASMA5-x86_64-DVD.iso
DATE.txt: Mon May  2 08:30:00 CEST 2016 
on real hw

Keywords: 6dev1 => 6sta1

va;id for Live DVD's dated 12th July 2016

Keywords: 6sta1 => 6RC

Here's what Ady said yesterday about this bug in #mageia-bugsquad:

2016:09:12:17:46 < Ady> marja: I can confirm what I wrote here about https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14471 . The problem is in 
http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/draklive/tree/draklive?id=786171ebb7723a74b841f7c1c1457bd825783a16#n640 (the line is there since..., well, "forever").

2016:09:12:17:48 < Ady> As I said, I do not know what is/was the intention of this line. From the POV of the resulting "boot/help.msg" file inside the LIVE DVD ISO images, that line is simply wrong. Whether it was intended to generate something else (too), I do not know / understand it.
2016:09:12:17:52 < Ady> The characters generated by 'pack("C*", 0x0E, 0x80, 0x03, 0x00, 0xC) . qq(' are incorrect for the msg file, so it shows the "gibberish". The only character from those that makes sense for this msg file is "0xC".

Thanks, it would thus be a draklive issue actually and not a syslinux one then.

As mentioned by Ady, this line has been there forever, I checked the first commit we have in the draklive repo (2007) and it's already there - so git history won't help here.

CC: (none) => isobuild
Assignee: ennael1 => mageiatools
Summary: [m6dev1] Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish => LiveDVD: Prior to boot menu live disks show artistic vertical and horizontal lines: gibberish
Source RPM: syslinux-6.03-3 => draklive

keyword: current Lives

Keywords: 6sta1.5 => 6sta2

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #16)
> 2016:09:12:17:48 < Ady> As I said, I do not know what is/was the intention
> of this line. From the POV of the resulting "boot/help.msg" file inside the
> LIVE DVD ISO images, that line is simply wrong. Whether it was intended to
> generate something else (too), I do not know / understand it.

It looks like some kind of display control sequence, but it's not anything described in

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=SYSLINUX#What_is_the_DISPLAY_File_Format.3F

Maybe Mandriva had a patched version of syslinux that recognised other sequences?

Anyway, it obviously doesn't work now, so let's remove it.

CC: (none) => mageia

commit f8ff6cc7fc75bdb3369093f563b84a4fa5e2deb6
Author: Martin Whitaker <mageia@...>
Date:   Sat Dec 17 16:57:42 2016 +0000

    draklive: remove control characters from boot/help.msg (mga#14471).
    
    This looks like it was intended to be a display control sequence, but
    it doesn't work, and just results in display corruption.
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/draklive/commit/?id=f8ff6cc7fc75bdb3369093f563b84a4fa5e2deb6

Isn't this bug fixed?

This should be fixed in the latest sta2 ISOs. Dick, please reopen if you think otherwise.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED