Bug 7670

Summary: Incorrect key combinations in installer stage 1 help
Product: Mageia Reporter: Juergen Harms <juergen.harms>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: marja11, zen25000
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: 3alpha2
Source RPM: CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: Screenshot as rrequired in comment #2

Description Juergen Harms 2012-10-02 07:14:46 CEST
Description of problem:

The installer offers a set of help buttons (the choice is displayed during some sortware installation screens of stage 1). The help buttons dont work as displayed - either they are wrongly labelled, or they are not correctly attached

display   works

ALT-F1    CTRL-ALT-F7 (something like "for here" ) - please note F1 -> F7
ALT-F3    CTRL-ALT-F3 (something like "see the log")
ALT-F4    CTRL_ALT-F4 (something like "kernel messages")


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

Mageia3 Alpha2 first set of isos


How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install
2. Wait until the "Detecting usb mass storage devices..." screen comes up
3. Note and use the help buttons
Juergen Harms 2012-10-02 07:21:02 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => 3alpha2

Juergen Harms 2012-10-02 07:22:28 CEST

Hardware: i586 => x86_64

Manuel Hiebel 2012-10-02 17:33:01 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => doc-bugs
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-help

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2012-10-02 17:51:30 CEST
I wish I understood this bug report. Sorry, I'm ill atm and not capable of doing an install.

If you get a chance to do another install, please make a screenshot of the screen in which you press the help button, and of the (non-)help you get then.

You can get a screenshot by pressing F2, screenshots will be stored in /root/DrakX-screenshots/
Bug 5086 is still valid, btw :(

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Barry Jackson 2012-10-02 19:38:26 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> I wish I understood this bug report. Sorry, I'm ill atm and not capable of
> doing an install.
> 
> If you get a chance to do another install, please make a screenshot of the
> screen in which you press the help button, and of the (non-)help you get then.
> 
> You can get a screenshot by pressing F2, screenshots will be stored in
> /root/DrakX-screenshots/
> Bug 5086 is still valid, btw :(

Marja,
I understand - this is not related to help screens at all.
It looks like the on-screen notes about how to access the various vt's is not correct.
Seems vt1 has shifted to vt7 and CTRL is needed as well as ALT to access them.
Get well soon ! :)

CC: (none) => zen25000

Comment 3 Juergen Harms 2012-10-02 21:06:59 CEST
Created attachment 2905 [details]
Screenshot as rrequired in comment #2
Comment 4 Juergen Harms 2012-10-02 21:14:18 CEST
Sorry - trying to be concise made cryptic.

Doing this, I see 2 more issues:

- F2 is a "hidden feature" (I know, documented in the wiki) - why not show it along with Alt-Ctrl-F<n>, this could be piggy backed to this bugzilla report

- I did not manage to make F2 work - hence the screenshot "à l'ancienne. Does F2 not work during stage1? does it now also require a mod-key? I dont have enough time to go into that now, trying to focus on the pending open issues (but I remember, with Alpha 1 I managed to get a screenshot).
Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-10-03 00:12:09 CEST
Thanks Barry and Jürgen.

So this report is about stage 1

F2 doesn't work in stage 1, nor is drakx-installer-help available there. 

re-assigning to tv

@ Thierry,

Sorry, I don't remember what to put in the RPM field for stage 1 bugs

Assignee: doc-bugs => thierry.vignaud
Summary: Incorrect installer help buttons => Incorrect key combinations in installer stage 1 help
Source RPM: drakx-installer-help => (none)

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2012-10-04 10:26:40 CEST
Those keys works fine in stage1.
The keys you're advocacing are the one that work in stage2.

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

Comment 7 Juergen Harms 2012-10-04 12:33:27 CEST
Sorry for the word "stage1" in my report - I do no know the precise limit between stage1 and stage2, used what seemed plausible.

The fact is, that the buttons in the display say Alt-F<something> and that Alt-F<something does not work, while Ctrl-Alt-F<something> does.

Shall I submit a new report with "stage1" removed from the report?
Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2012-10-04 14:09:43 CEST
No.
stage1 advertizes key combinations that are only valid for stage1.