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Bug 117007
| Summary: | Install not possible in Russian (probably also Arabic and Hebrew) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Need Real Name <jlr> |
| Component: | rhpl | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-05-07 15:54:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 114961 | ||
Fixed in CVS Fixed in CVS sounds like a closer |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: If Russian is selected as the installation language, installation is not possible (without specialized undocumented knowledge). The problem is that the keyboard is left by default in Russian mode, when it should be English. So when the time comes to enter the root password, the installer always rejects the password, complaining that it contains non-ascii characters. The problem is aggravated by the fact that the password itself is not displayed, so the user has no way of knowing that he is entering Russian text. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhpl-0.124.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select Russian as installation language. 2. Accept all defaults. 3. Try to enter root password. Actual Results: Installer repeatedly rejects password, complaining about non-ascii characters. Screen displays only asterisks, so user has no idea that he is entering Cyrillic text. User gives up in despair and switches to Suse. Expected Results: Keyboard should be in English mode by default. Additional info: In the module 'keyboard_models.py' the ru keyboard is defined like this: 'ru' : [_('Russian'), 'ru,us', 'pc105', '', . . . The second element is 'ru,us', but it should be 'us,ru'. This problem presumably affects all languages which require a "shift" key (Hebrew, Arabic, etc).