Bug#606242. I reproduced on debian-squeeze-di-beta2-i386 New install, the Wonky 'Install screen [CONTINUE] button icon', issue.
First a quick conjecture. I wonder if a mouse button action is a 'two state' trigger ? 1.) Button pressed, and 2.) button released. Are these actually really sticky hardware buttons on the multiple mice maybe ? 1.) Greyed out for button pressed, and 2.)'Programme action' when button realeased. Just a thought. I could try to multiple press and click of the left button, without moving the mouse in the plain. 2010.12.10. I noticed this MINOR issue again, this time on Debian squeeze di Beta2 (Beta 2) (Beta-2) at the Partition Disks: Partition Settings: screen. Though the issue symptom may have occured earlier. I do not really know. I will keep looking. After setting up a raid1 mirroring array with 3 raid partitions on two hard disks, my last action was setting up the /boot partition on the array when I experienced the 'freeze'. Selecting the task 'Finish partitioning and write changes to disk' I went to press [CONTINUE] My [CONTINUE] button icon, on my install screen, has this issue of having a 'Two Trigger' attribute. Using a different mouse this time. Not the USB optical mouse I originally used. This time I am using, for fault finding, an original IBM PS/2 mouse, part number IBM 6450350. Left button click and the [CONTINUE] button icon on the screen GREYs out. Good. OK. I can then leave the mouse untouched for as long as I like, without any other programme reaction. Frozen. The [CONTINUE] button screen icon remains 'greyed out', without any programme action that I selected. I then eventually moved the mouse in the horizontal plane slightly and the programme reacts to the [continue] button icon being pressed, and the task completes OK. Next time, I should try the vertical plane. I selected the [GO BACK] screen icon button and followed up reproducing the symptom issue with the [continue] button icon. After selecting 'Finish partitioning' yet again and going to the 'Write changes to the disk' again, I could NOT reproduce the 'Two Trigger' issue on the [continue] icon button. The icon button worked OK, UNTIL I reached the 'Software selection' screen. I went to accept the default software selection GDE and SSU. I pressed the left button with the cursor on [CONTINUE] and the issue returned. On purpose, I placed the tip of the 'cursor arrow pointer' on the coordinates; X: The gap Horizontally, Halfway between the left hand vertical side of the [continue] screen icon button's box frame, and it's letter 'C' the first letter in [continue], and... the Y: coordinate, Vertically halfway up or down the [continue] icon box frame. I now have to correct my earlier description in my first posting. On purpose, I did NOT move the cursor outside the box frame of the [continue] icon. Eventually, I moved the mouse the tinyest amount I could, lets say one millimetre. While still well inside the icons box framework, the programme action was triggered OK, whilst the cursor pointer was still inside the icon. I wrongly said previously, that I had to move the cursor outside the icons boundaries for some programme action. Having reproduced the symptom of this MINOR issue to this degree, I now feel a total pedant. Pragmatically, I can live with this particular issue. Best of luck, I wish you all well. Thank you for all the GREAT software, everybody involved. I really do appreciate Debian, et al, your efforts and your support, In the past and in the future. Happy holidays. 2010.12.17. Regards, McTech. ---end.
