Hi Mark: I totally agree with you regarding the warnings. They could be pretty daunting to a first time user as they do not have any idea what is the "correct" behaviour and what is "incorrect". So trying to eliminate all those false warnings could go a long way in enhancing the user experience.
It would be great however if you could perhaps note all these issues down and file them as bugs in the bug tracker. This way we can address them as time permits. Of course if you have patches or notes regarding what may have caused the problem, they will help us fix the problems sooner! http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=259&atid=100259 Anyways I'm glad that cciss now works for you. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Seger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 14:29 > To: Bernard Li > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] more warnings/errors with 3.7.3 > > As I said in my note I believed they were warnings and my > installation > didn't fail so no harm was done. I just presented the notion > of "what > if" it failed and am trying to get the point across that > there are a lot > of places in the whole process of getting images and imaging them out > where one gets a random collection of of undefined variables > and has no > idea if this is a bug, a warning or just careless > programming. For all > one knows, even if the image successfully boots, what if some > configuration was done incorrectly? How is one to know? > > IMO, with some ranting, is that SystemImager is an environment which > works most of the time but occasionally doesn't and when it doesn't > someone has to try and figure out what went wrong. I've spent many > hours tracking down undefined variable warnings only to find > out it was > just careless programming which could have easily been > corrected. This > generates a lot of user frustration. Just tracking down my problems > with 3.7.3 cost me a day's worth of effort and probably a couple of > hours (or more) for you and Andrea. A little more care on > the part of > error trapping could have saved a lot of our time. My intent of > including the snippets below is to try and get that point > across. If we > want SI to gain even more users it needs to be bullet-proof or when > there is a problem at least make it real clear where that > problem lies > and where it doesn't but not having random warnings that look like > errors. But just to be clear, I'm a big fan... > > -mark > > Bernard Li wrote: > > >Hi Mark: > > > >Those are just warnings. > > > >It would help if you post detailed log message regarding how > your image > >install fails. > > > >Cheers, > > > >Bernard > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >>Behalf Of Mark Seger > >>Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 13:05 > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: [Sisuite-devel] more warnings/errors with 3.7.3 > >> > >>I just ran prepareclient on a new, rhel4/update3 system and > >>got errors > >>once again, are these serious or not? I'm guessing they're > not, but > >>later on if my install image fails, how am I to know whether it's a > >>problem with the server of the way I generated the client? > >> > >>Continue? (y/[n]): y > >>Signaling xinetd to restart... > >>Using "sfdisk" to gather information about disk: > >> /dev/cciss/c0d0 > >> > >>Use of uninitialized value in hash element at > >>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 1237, > >><FH_IN> line 8. > >> > >>then later on... > >> >> tar -C /tmp/.systemimager.0 -cf - . | tar -C > >>/tmp/.systemimager.1 -xf - > >>tar: ./dev/gpmctl: socket ignored > >>tar: ./dev/log: socket ignored > >> > >>-mark > >> > >> > >> > >>Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web > >>services, security? > >>Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make > >>your job easier > >>Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on > >>Apache Geronimo > >>http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&; > >>dat=121642 > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Sisuite-devel mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel > >> > >> > >> > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
