User creation page sometimes apparently freezes until you type more characters
@adamw
Submitted by Adam Williamson Assigned to GNOME Initial Setup maintainer(s)
Link to original bug (#703092)
Description
I've done a lot of F19 installs, obviously, and maybe 20% of the time I run g-i-s, I see this bug. I've been seeing it all through F19 cycle, I think, I don't think it's new in 0.12 or anything.
I usually use the username 'test' with password 'test', and I type it in very quickly. I click the username box, type 'test', click the password box, type 'test', hit tab to the password confirmation box, type 'test' again.
When the bug happens, at the point where I'm typing the password (I think it's never kicked in earlier or later), g-i-s appears to freeze/hang. The cursor shape changes as it passes over text fields, but clicking on them doesn't produce any obvious changes. Typing in them also does not.
However, g-i-s hasn't actually frozen or hung. If I keep clicking around different boxes and typing, after I type 20-30 characters of garbage, it'll suddenly spring back to life, and all the garbage characters will be present. Then I have to remove them all to proceed.
I don't think it 'recovers' unless I type stuff. I once just blindly typed my usual 'test' and 'test' in the password boxes and then just left it sitting there for about 5 minutes; it didn't wake up. If I keep clicking and typing, it wakes up in 20-30 seconds. I haven't counted if there's a precise number of characters I have to type to make it 'recover'.
I'll try and remember to attach the journalctl output of the g-i-s session next time this happens.
Version: 0.12