Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 02 juin 2019 13:00:51 +0200, a ecrit:
> Cc-ing debian-l10n-arabic because they can perhaps look at the partman
> translation files and check that there is nothing odd in the file (e.g.
> odd ligatures or such odd thing that might disturb gtk).
I forgot to mention that I tried in Persian and didn't have the issue,
so that confirms that there is probably something in the Arabic
translation which triggers a bug in gtk.
> While doing some tests, I noticed that when running the installer in
> arabic language, the hard disk detection step hangs. To reproduce:
>
> - dd < /dev/zero > blip bs=1M count=1 seek=10000
> - kvm -cdrom /var/tmp/d-i/debian-buster-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso -drive file=blip -m 2G
> - Select the graphical installer
> - Select the arabic language
> - Select that you don't care that not everything is translated
> - Select everything by default except typing non-empty passwords and
> user name
>
> The partman packages get loaded but the installer remains stuck at the
> attached screenshot. /var/log/syslog does not provide more information
> than what we get when doing all the same in English. The ongoing
> processes showing up in ps are
>
> udpkg --configure --force-configure partman-base
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/partman-base.postinst configure
> /bin/partman
> parted_server
> /lib/partman/display.d/10initial_auto
>
> Switching to VT4 to see the log then going back to VT5 shows a fully
> gray screen, so I guess it's the gtk frontend which is somehow stuck due
> to something in the arabic translation?
>
> I tried today's weekly build, with the same result (the only difference
> being that it doesn't warn that not everything is translated).
>
> Samuel
>
> -- Package-specific info:
>
> Boot method: CD
> Image version: debian-buster-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> Machine: kvm
>
>
> Base System Installation Checklist:
> [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
>
> Initial boot: [O]
> Detect network card: [O]
> Configure network: [O]
> Detect CD: [O]
> Load installer modules: [O]
> Clock/timezone setup: [O]
> User/password setup: [O]
> Detect hard drives: [E]
> Partition hard drives: [ ]
> Install base system: [ ]
> Install tasks: [ ]
> Install boot loader: [ ]
> Overall install: [ ]
>
>
> --
>
> Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
> installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
> report. Please compress large files using gzip.
>
> Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
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