On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:20:21PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 15:29 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> > I installed TC-3 in a VirtualBox VM (latest vbox release, 64-bit) t'other
> > day. Mostly it went quite well with one really oddball exception. I don't
> > know if it's a general problem (haven't seen other mentions of it)
> > or not, but it's weird enough I thought to mention it here.
> >
> > When creating a user in Anaconda, I entered the password twice, as prompted,
> > and it said they didn't match. so I did it again. and again. and again. It
> > insisted they didn't match.
> >
> > tried the same thing for the root password and got the same result.
> >
> > So, I entered a one-character password, in both fields, and it did not
> > say they didn't match. so I tried two chars. ok so far. by working my way
> > up to the full password, one char at a time in both fields, it allowed me
> > to get the whole thing in successfully. This worked for both my username
> > and for root.
> >
> > Never seen any such thing before!
> >
> > If anyone wants me to, I can go try more installs and see if I can
> > reproduce. If I CAN, what sorts of extra info would be helpful when i
> > report it?
>
Adam, et al:
I did two more fresh installs last night to see if I could reproduce
this, and was unable to. So, I have no idea if I was doing something
wrong in the first instance, or what.
So I guess it counts as "resolved", for some values therof.
> That's, um, a rather strange one. It's hard to know what kind of info is
> best apart from the obvious 'how can you reproduce it' - AFAIK those are
> pretty standard GTK+ text entry boxes and all anaconda does is compare
> their contents.
>
> So basically the bug is this:
>
> 1. type 'correcthorsebatterystaple' in box 1
> 2. type 'correcthorsebatterystaple' in box 2
>
> NO MATCH
>
> 1. type 'c' in box 1
> 2. type 'c' in box 2
> 3. type 'o' in box 1
> 4. type 'o' in box 2
> 5. type 'r' in box 1
> 6. type 'r' in box 2
>
> (SOME TIME LATER)
>
> 49. type 'e' in box 1
> 50. type 'e' in box 2
>
> MATCH
>
> right? I guess the other info is whether it depends on the actual
> password used, and if so, what's a password that triggers it.
>
> I definitely haven't seen that in my F21 testing. I tend to use the
> password '111111', but I do use 'correcthorse@"' sometimes for keyboard
> layout tests.
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