Bug#258877: using menu item return code to reboot system is fragile

2004-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 06:52:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > This is a fundamental misdesign. It should be reverted. > > Please provide a better interface. I don't understand why cdebconf needs to be shut down before reboot at all; we have X_SAVE. -- see shy jo signat

Bug#258877: using menu item return code to reboot system is fragile

2004-07-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 06:52:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This is a fundamental misdesign. It should be reverted. Please provide a better interface. Bastian -- Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal. -- Spock, "The Alternative Factor", stardate 3088.7 s

Bug#258877: using menu item return code to reboot system is fragile

2004-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: main-menu Severity: normal Tags: d-i Recently the way d-i does an exit/reboot was changed, so that menu items may pass a special code 11 or 12 to main-menu, which then exits with that same code, and causes rootskel to halt or reboot the system. This change has made d-i less robust. It m