On Mon Jul 13 18:52:16 UTC 2015 Chris Murphy typed:
So there's the kernel bug, 1225671, that ends up stopping the arrays, but then there's a misleading message saying there's a problem that's been corrected, yet clearly not corrected.
The exact wording of the message is:
'Unexpected system error. The system has encountered a problem and recovered.'
This is a message in the installer itself? Or is this a GNOME notification (a floating thing from the top-center)? I'm going to guess it's not in the installer because I've always seen it spit out the exact error message into the anaconda.log (or program.log if it's a helper program's error) and I don't see that in your attached logs. But I also don't see it in the journal either, so... I'm baffled exactly what system error it's referring to as well as this supposed recovery. GNOME bug... haha.
The precise appearance of the error message is as follows:
A small dark rectangular box appears at the top center of the blue wallpaper page. The box contains a large frowny-face and the words:
'Oops, sorry, it looks like a problem occurred. If you'd like to help resolve...'
On mouseover, the box expands to finish the sentence '...the issue, please send a report.', followed by a darker area at the bottom of the box containing the word 'Report'. Clicking on 'Report' opens a large light colored box with the '...encountered a problem and recovered' message, plus:
Kernel-core Version 4.04.301.fc22.x86_64
plus boxes labeled 'Details' and 'log'. Clicking on 'log' opens a window that announces that the bug has already been reported, allows a login to bugzilla, thus adding my name to the cc for the bug, and a link to the bug, BZ 1225671.
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:24 PM, John Wright jwright2@san.rr.com wrote:
The precise appearance of the error message is as follows:
A small dark rectangular box appears at the top center of the blue wallpaper page. The box contains a large frowny-face and the words:
That's an abrt message coming through the GNOME notification system. So it's picking up the oops.
'Oops, sorry, it looks like a problem occurred. If you'd like to help resolve...'
On mouseover, the box expands to finish the sentence '...the issue, please send a report.', followed by a darker area at the bottom of the box containing the word 'Report'. Clicking on 'Report' opens a large light colored box with the '...encountered a problem and recovered' message, plus:
I'm not sure what it means by recovered. I guess it means the kernel oops didn't cause a panic?
It'd be nice if the installer could provide some error handling for such cases, but really a kernel oops is something that just shouldn't happen. Had this been reported and marked as a blocker for Fedora 22, I'm very confident it would have been accepted as a blocker because it very clearly violates a beta release criterion.
This is a QA recruitment drive! The testing matrix for Fedora has really exploded lately, and all the features in the installer's custom panel just makes it all the more likely (and in my opinion increasingly likely) that bugs won't get caught unless the testing base keeps up with the feature additions.
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