2012/3/6 Colin Guthrie <[email protected]>: > '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)? -- wobo
