Bug 9124

Summary: Attempting to use the Help option in the installer may crash the installation
Product: Mageia Reporter: Bogdan Gruescu <gruescubogdan>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: segmentation fault
same errors from the console
GDB trace with symbols

Description Bogdan Gruescu 2013-02-19 18:54:46 CET
Created attachment 3528 [details]
segmentation fault

I've just performed a network installation using the boot-nonfree.iso.

At the moment when the system asked to select the keyboard (just before the partitioning step), I clicked on the Help button and further also on a link to a Wikipedia page about keyboards. The page opened fine, but when I wanted to close that Internet page and return to the installation, the installer failed and had to start it again with a reboot. Sorry about the poor quality of the attached image.
Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-19 20:05:03 CET

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7652 ***

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

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-26 11:54:00 CET
ok reopening, can be problematic in some way

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE => (none)
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Severity: minor => major

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-26 11:59:04 CET
Created attachment 3549 [details]
same errors from the console
Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2013-02-26 17:48:25 CET
There's been fixed in perl-Glib.
Can you still reproduce with installer from today?
eg: http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/install/stage2/

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-26 18:28:07 CET
yep it was with the new stage2, showing beta3
Manuel Hiebel 2013-02-26 18:28:18 CET

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2013-02-28 21:40:52 CET
Created attachment 3562 [details]
GDB trace with symbols

It's easily reproductable with drakx-in-chroot. eg:

drakx-in-chroot /distro_root /path_to_install --gdb
Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2013-03-04 20:14:34 CET
Probably a webkit bug.
Workarounded in SVN

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