[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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