Add a simple message for systemd users when X11 fails to initialise.

This system is rather crude and uses mingetty to ensure the tty is properly
reset and initialised. A more complete solution would do all this internally
and perhaps offer some options to e.g. enter the root password and automatically
run drakx11.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4769

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/display-manager-failure-message b/display-manager-failure-message
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo >&2
+echo "Sorry, but there has been a problem starting your graphical display." >&2
+echo >&2
+echo "In order to debug your problem we will automatically switch to a text-based" >&2
+echo "login screen from where login as the root user and run the 'drakx11' utility" >&2
+echo "to configure your graphical system." >&2
+echo >&2
+echo "After configuration, you can restart your graphical environment via the command:" >&2
+echo "  systemctl default" >&2
+echo "at which point you will be automatically logged out while the graphical system" >&2
+echo "starts." >&2
+echo >&2
+echo "If you would prefer to avoid this message and go straight to a text-based login" >&2
+echo "system at boot, simply change the symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target to" >&2
+echo "point instead to /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target" >&2
+echo >&2
+echo "Good luck :)" >&2
+echo >&2
+echo "Press any key." >&2
+read -n 1
+
+echo >&2
+echo "Switching to multi-user.target..." >&2
+systemctl isolate multi-user.target