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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:20 pm, Jim Hubbard wrote:
> I posted most of this to bugtraq, just thought I'd email to this list too
> just in case. Mdk's bug tracking system has never inspired a lot of faith
> on my part. Anyway, here goes:
>
Most (all?) of the bugs you posted crossed the list today, if that helps
improve your confidence.
>
> Installation
>
> Complaint: The only way I found to choose between what used to be called
> "recommended" or "expert" installations is by passing it at the command
> prompt. Why is there no graphical way to choose any more?
>
I did not realize this until you mentioned it, but yes, why can this not be
chosen?
> Complaint: Mandrake 8.x and 9.0 installs used to be downright pretty, with
> 3d looking buttons and a hotlinked menu on the left side that I could use
> to move back and forth if I needed to. This new one looks very sparse and
> amateurish - kinda like something I would dream up. It sucks. Hard.
>
I disagree. The reviewers and the GP are looking for nice fonts and a clean,
minimalistic look and I think this accomplishes that. They needed a change
that increases the wow factor anyway. Maybe Eugenia will be happy now :-D
> Bug (I think): Lilo installation, even under expert mode, only asks if you
> want to install lilo to the mbr or to /boot. What if I've got multiple
> hard disks? Which mbr and which /boot is it referring to? Also, the rest
> of the lilo config is just plain skipped. Did it add sections for my other
> OS's? No way to know till you just cross yer fingers and reboot (or crash
> and burn, see next).
>
Agreed, Expert mode should allow you to fully configure LILO (or install GrUB
instead). We may be past the point where this can be changed though as
feature freeze is upon us.
>
> Complaint: The new default login manager again looks sparse and amateurish.
> Please, either pretty it up a bit or change it back.
>
Along with some other missing features. Many have complained about not being
able to login as root (although they shouldn't anyway) and I don't like not
being able to have hidden users. It can shake it's head NO a la OSX on a
failed login though.
You can change it back yourself by uninstalling mdkkdm and installing
kdebase-kdm in it's stead. Perhaps the expert install should let you choose
default login manager so you can skip mdkkdm if you want.
> Bug: Manpages don't seem to work at all. Don't know how that could be, but
> I can't pull up a single one. Here's the error:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] jimh]$ man ls
> sh: line 1: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/nroff: line 158: 2300 Done
> PATH=$GROFF_BIN_PATH:$PATH groff -mtty-char $T $opts ${1+"$@"}
> 2301 Broken pipe | $ICONV
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".ll 11.1i"; echo ".pl 1100i";
> /usr/bin/bzip2 -c -d '/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2'; echo; echo ".pl
> \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -c |
> /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 127.
> No manual entry for ls
>
Haven't seen that one yet
>
> Bug: The "reboot" button on the login manager doesn't work.
>
Still?
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Greg
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