F18 beta TC3, installer GUI redraw weirdness

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 02:00 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Short version:
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3253801/Screen%20Shot%202012-10-11%20at%
> 201.47.08%20AM.png
> 
> The first column is too long and not scrollable. I can't choose the
> Minimal Install option.
> 
> 
> Longer version:
> 
> This wasn't happening a few days ago with the same installer. Same
> everything. This is Fedora-18-Beta-TC3-x86_64-netinst.iso, and it's
> VBox 4.2.0. Same version as when I first tried this, with the same
> ISO, with the same VM, on the same computer. Literally everything is
> the same, even the target VDI. Problems are:
> 
> 1. A lot of stepped on text from the overlay of the two columns, kinda
> ugly/confusing.
> 
> 2. Choose your environment column is too long to fit on the screen and
> ends with Web Server. I can't scroll down to choose anything below
> that.
> 
> 3. Choose your add-ons does have a scroll bar that appears to work,
> but cuts off the description of the last item "Robotics".
> 
> 
> Is the metadata that anaconda downloads for netinstall possibly
> affecting how this portion of the UI is drawn? File a bug against
> anaconda or is this in the realm of really obvious someone must see
> it?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865066

Dan Mashal saw this too, so I suspect the reproducer is simpler than my
mail suggests - it's just 'go into the software selection spoke with the
package source set to a remote mirror'. So it affects a normal netinst
run.
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