Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages
Package: debian-installer
Version: bullseye-rc1
Severity: grave
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
(tested with rc1-netinst and -netboot image, on an amd64 qemu machine with 1G RAM)
Installer hangs, with only displaying a headline and nothing more, eating up
all CPU time.
Interestingly, yesterday's daily does not have this problem, while RC1 has!!!
And sadly it has not been discovered, that alpha3 is also affected, while
alpha2 is fine!
Yet another problem which started to appear with alpha3, just like
"Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell"
!!!
The commit
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/95fdc73ca8cde8d7a360fd3d742fc947a045ec0f
"Drop fontconfig tweaks introduced in version 20170828 (See: #873462)"
comes to my mind, also included in alpha3 ... ???
The text installer seems to be not affected (well, only Persian from the langs
above is available in text installer, and Persian works there).
We already have
"Bug#983897: installation-reports: Installation in Uyghur hangs"
where the installer hangs at some later steps - noticed for Uyghur and Kannada
so far...
Uyghur is however not affected by this language chooser fail bug.
As already mentioned by Samuel, this may be another resurgence - in a tightened
form - of
"#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with
arabic language"
from 2019, where the real reason has not been found...
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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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