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

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
Tue Mar 6 17:31:53 CET 2012


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.


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