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cdebconf package

Debian Installer screen text is corrupted

Bug #526391 reported by Ara Pulido
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cdebconf (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
newt (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
newt (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Testing Lucid Alpha 3 candidate images (20100223.1)

The text looks corrupted. This is KVM and Spanish, but Dave Morley experiences the same in HW and English.

Screenshot attached.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: a08fd14ff73f03f0a48f9e6d0af6c8e2
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Tue Feb 23 12:45:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: LENOVO 7664R5G
MemoryUsage:
 total used free shared buffers cached
 Mem: 2027836 1976544 51292 0 26116 259748
 -/+ buffers/cache: 1690680 337156
 Swap: 491392 194144 297248
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-14-generic root=UUID=d72973b5-9d42-4204-a98d-6705012b09bb ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: debian-installer
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 08/15/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC4WW (2.24 )
dmi.board.name: 7664R5G
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC4WW(2.24):bd08/15/2008:svnLENOVO:pn7664R5G:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn7664R5G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7664R5G
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/newt
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :
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Dave Morley (davmor2) wrote :

On Detect Keyboard I get:

<Go Backntu1> <Yes nu!<Nos nu!>

which I'm assuming should be <Go Back> <Yes> <No>

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) → cdebconf (Ubuntu)
Changed in cdebconf (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Confirming this in Xubuntu also. This starts after selecting language.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I've been investigating this, and can reproduce it, but so far I have been unable to reproduce it in a sufficiently controlled environment to allow me to actually debug it. It looks as if strings are getting un-null-terminated somehow, but I have not so far been able to determine whether this is happening within cdebconf itself or whether it's within newt or slang2 or somewhere else.

(To compound the problem, newt doesn't seem to build from source for me right now ...)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Aha! This is almost certainly http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570581.

Changed in cdebconf (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in newt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: cdebconf (Debian) → newt (Debian)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package newt - 0.52.10-5ubuntu1

---------------
newt (0.52.10-5ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Define TRUE and FALSE, fixing build failure (thanks, Theppitak
    Karoonboonyanan; Debian bug #570663).
  * Zero-initialise fribidi_log2vis' output buffer, since it no longer does
    so itself (thanks to Brad Jorsch for analysis; Debian bug #570581;
    LP: #526391).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:33:15 +0000

Changed in newt (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in newt (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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