Selection freeze/error in Region menu since April 1st ISO

[seyadog]

Which ISO version are you using?

2026.04.01

Describe the problem

The archinstall script freezes or fails to register input during the Region/Mirrors selection menu.

When attempting to press Enter to select a region or using the '/' key to search, the UI does not respond or crashes, making it impossible to proceed. This issue started with the April 1st ISO; previous versions worked correctly on this same hardware (HP Victus).

The installation log

No log file was generated as the installer hangs before the installation process begins.

Additional information

• Hardware: HP Victus Laptop (Intel i5 12th Gen / GTX 1650)
• Status: The UI becomes unresponsive exactly at the region selection step.
• Note: This is a physical hardware installation, not a Virtual Machine.

[Torxed]

No log file was generated as the installer hangs before the installation process begins.

There should still be a /var/log/archinstall/cmd_history.txt log that might be useful.
Just make sure it doesn't contain anything sensitive before you post it, as it's raw command outputs - so any user passwords might be in there!

Clarification: It might give us an indication of what the UI was calling, that might be causing it to hang.

[codefiles]

Just make sure it doesn't contain anything sensitive before you post it, as it's raw command outputs - so any user passwords might be in there!

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[svartkanin]

This sounds like to be the same misunderstanding around the enter key change, this PR should revert it to the old behavior #4386