Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages
Hi,
* Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> [210425 11:34]:
> Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> wrote (Sat, 24 Apr 2021 23:45:13 +0200):
> > * Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> [210424 21:42]:
> > > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 graphical
> > > installer fails to go forward, when selecting one of these languages:
> > > - Kannada
> > > - Marathi
> > > - Persian
> > > - Sinhala
> >
> > I spent a few hours today on this issue, but did not get very far.
> > Not totally unexpected if you know nothing about the installer.
> >
> > I have, however, a perf top output to share. I believe this more or less means
> > the font rendering (pango, fontconfig) is stuck somehow?
>
> That might support my wild guess, that "Drop fontconfig tweaks" changings
> could be related.
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/95fdc73ca8cde8d7a360fd3d742fc947a045ec0f
>
> However, I don't get it, why recent dailies are not affected, while RC1 (and
> alpha3) is ???
While the -exact- same bug does not appear on the
20210424-7/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso image, I
think the bug is still there, just better hidden.
I managed to make debconf hang by:
- select Marathi
- on the next screen, click the Back button
- in the now appearing list, select something else (I think two
above from what was selected)
- click the Continue button
- hangs
Chris
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