Bug 19928

Summary:	Text mode installation with garbled output & commands & messages
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Renato Dali <mkare>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2, perl-Curses-UI	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Dialog after user creation. Summary of selected options. Screen after trying to reach and change the keyboard layout setting

Description Renato Dali 2016-12-12 02:13:03 CET

Description of problem:
Please check uploaded images.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Mageia 6 netinstall

How reproducible:

Repeated more than once, other times with classic installer.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Mageia/textmode.
2.Go until root password definition and use creation.
3.Problems start after that... keep on installing.

Workaround is to endure the bad formatting as installation can be completed with a little bit of effort.

Comment 1 Renato Dali 2016-12-12 02:16:29 CET

Created attachment 8755 [details]
Dialog after user creation.

Command appearing at top of screen already indicates problem to come...

Comment 2 Renato Dali 2016-12-12 02:21:22 CET

Created attachment 8756 [details]
Summary of selected options.

Summary of chosen option for review.

Notice the keyboard (teclado) layout -- Brasileiro ABNT-2 -- probably due to the choice of language.

This netbook, though, has a keyboard with a Portuguese layout.

Comment 3 Renato Dali 2016-12-12 02:24:03 CET

Created attachment 8757 [details]
Screen after trying to reach and change the keyboard layout setting

Each time the up arrow is pressed a command line is output to the screen making it harder to read.

Comment 4 Renato Dali 2016-12-12 02:28:18 CET

If the amount of changes is not great, one can try to navigate thru that sea of letters and reach the [Next] keyword. Installation then can proceed more or less without any further issues...

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2016-12-13 00:37:46 CET

(In reply to Renato Dali from comment #3)
> Created attachment 8757 [details]
> Screen after trying to reach and change the keyboard layout setting
> 
> Each time the up arrow is pressed a command line is output to the screen
> making it harder to read.

That looks horrible and confusing, increasing severity to normal.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2
Severity: minor => normal

Comment 6 Renato Dali 2016-12-13 03:12:18 CET

Interestingly, the installer is somewhat smart in that if one chooses to use the US keyboard, it correctly does not assume the user is in the US, but gives an extra screen after language choice to allow the user to choose a local layout.

So, it's like:

] choose Brazilian Portuguese -- layout is ABNT-2 (ABNT means Brazilian Technical Standards Association)

] choose US English -- it asks "do you want a US keyboard or another?"

Here I chose a Portuguese layout (that the netbook has) and therefore didn't test this screen in English. It might have or not problems in that language... if I remember when I install Mageia 6 again, I'll choose English to see what happens.

Thierry Vignaud 2016-12-13 13:27:09 CET

CC: (none) => pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => drakx-installer-stage2, perl-Curses-UI

Comment 7 Renato Dali 2016-12-17 17:03:07 CET

Retried Mageia 6 netinstall with English and verified that even when choosing the default English (American) option the same mess happens.