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

Tue Mar 6 17:56:47 CET 2012

2012/3/6 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
+> On 03/06/2012 11:22 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>
+>> 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)?
+>
+>
+> Probably a better solution, if you know that X is supposed to come up but
+> isn't, is to automatically log him in as some new ID whose shell is a script
+> something like the rescue console script.  The first thing it does is su him
+> to prompt for the root password, and then presents a character-based dialog
+> explaining his options, offering to run XFdrake, maybe running rpm/urpmi to
+> see if all needed packages are installed, and giving him to option to exit
+> to a real shell if he wants.
+
+Yes, that would be the next step on the road to user-friendly desaster
+management. As long as we do not have this a login prompt is better
+than nothing.
+-- 
+wobo
+