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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

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