Bug#396071: segfaults when attempting to take a screenshot while wget is running

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:04:45PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> reassign 396071 cdebconf-gtk-udeb
> thanks
> 
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:23, Robert Millan wrote:
> > If you hit the Screenshot button while wget is fetching [1] your
> > mirror's Release file, d-i will segfault.  Inmediately after that, you
> > see [2], and after a console switch, the d-i logs [3].
> 
> Known issue and the reason why the screenshot button is disabled when a 
> progress bar is running.
> Apparently we are disabling the screenshot button too late here.
> 
> Reassigning to cdebconf-gtk-udeb as that is what causes the crash, and it 
> would be good to investigate the actual cause of the crash and seeing if 
> we can solve that. Disabling the button was only a workaround.
> 
> Note that in the mean time we may need to fix this in choose-mirror after 
> all by displaying a progress bar at this point.

That would be good too, because the reason I wanted to take a screenshot was that
the installer appeared to hang, with no progress bar being shown.

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