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

Tue Mar 6 18:51:57 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 06/03/12 16:56 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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. 
+
+Well, that's my whole point!!!
+
+> As long as we do not have this a login prompt is better than nothing.
+
+So I should spend my time doing this, only to undo it later for a
+different solution?
+
+I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to waste time on this until it's decided
+that this is the all we're going to do and what we'll ship.
+
+As far as things stand I see it as tangential to what I'd like to
+achieve so I'd rather spend what limited time I have working on that
+than something that could ultimately be thrown away later.
+
+Col
+
+
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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