Comment 58 for bug 254840

I can now confirm the full desk top installation get into a similar problem. After a long slow period it stops with the background image and an almost empty install window. There are no active controls or anything like that but the window colour is not quite flat.

Again the only way out is to switch the machine off. The machine was happily running Suse 9.3 until I started this and Knoppix 5.3.1 runs happily so it should be possible.