[Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

Tue Mar 6 17:22:50 CET 2012

2012/3/6 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 06/03/12 15:28 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On Tuesday 06 March 2012 14:52, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>> what I expect in any case,
+>>> be it an installation without X or a "normal" installation where
+>>> X fails to start, I expect to be dropped at a login prompt.
+>>
+>> Hear, hear.
+>
+> Please comment on the bug I linked to earlier then.
+>
+> I would have thought some better help and instructions would have been
+> better but if you guys all think dumping a novice user to a login prompt
+> is better then so be it.
+
+No, we guys all think dumping a novice user to a login prompt is far
+better than dumping him on a screen full of messages with no prompt or
+even a blackscreen.
+
+If you want to address the novice user, what do you think makes
+support in case of a failing x server easier for the helper AND the
+novice user, a black screen, a screen without a prompt but with a
+hanging list of messages instead - or a login prompt from where he can
+be directed to a solution (or given instructions to provide more
+information)?
+
+-- 
+wobo
+