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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Tue Mar 6 17:56:47 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>2012/3/6 Frank Griffin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>>:
><i> On 03/06/2012 11:22 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
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</I>>><i> If you want to address the novice user, what do you think makes support in
</I>>><i> case of a failing x server easier for the helper AND the novice user, a
</I>>><i> black screen, a screen without a prompt but with a hanging list of messages
</I>>><i> instead - or a login prompt from where he can be directed to a solution (or
</I>>><i> given instructions to provide more information)?
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</I>><i> Probably a better solution, if you know that X is supposed to come up but
</I>><i> isn't, is to automatically log him in as some new ID whose shell is a script
</I>><i> something like the rescue console script.  The first thing it does is su him
</I>><i> to prompt for the root password, and then presents a character-based dialog
</I>><i> explaining his options, offering to run XFdrake, maybe running rpm/urpmi to
</I>><i> see if all needed packages are installed, and giving him to option to exit
</I>><i> to a real shell if he wants.
</I>
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
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