On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 06:44:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 21:14 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:04:24AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Well, I downloaded the actual beta and I can re-create it, it's a
> > matter of how one types things in, apparently, on the user creation
> > screen. I've exercised this four or five times this evening, and
> > it seems to always work as described below:
> >
> > When the user creation screen first appears, if I type my name in
> > quickly, it appears as "derF Smith", then when I go on to enter a
> > password, it repeatedly fails. Makes me wonder if whatever caused
> > the reverse-ordering of the letters in my first name may not also be
> > messing with what I type into the password fields.
> >
> > OTOH, if I wait a few seconds after the user creation appears, and
> > type the first name slowly, all is well: the name is not reversed,
> > and the password is accepted without complaint.
> >
> > weird, eh?
>
> Yeah, it is a bit (and would explain why I don't see it with my
> palindromic password...)
>
> Which image were you using again? If you can, can you test with
today's tests are using: Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21_Beta-4.iso
> virt-manager and see if it reproduces there?
I don't have it working on this system, and I'd rather not futz
with my main desktop machine to get it working. sorry.
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