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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/3/6 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
> 'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 06/03/12 15:28 did gyre and gimble:
>> On Tuesday 06 March 2012 14:52, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>>> what I expect in any case,
>>> be it an installation without X or a "normal" installation where
>>> X fails to start, I expect to be dropped at a login prompt.
>>
>> Hear, hear.
>
> Please comment on the bug I linked to earlier then.
>
> I would have thought some better help and instructions would have been
> better but if you guys all think dumping a novice user to a login prompt
> is better then so be it.

No, we guys all think dumping a novice user to a login prompt is far
better than dumping him on a screen full of messages with no prompt or
even a blackscreen.

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)?

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wobo