Hello,
today morning I did a somewhat older
openSUSE Tumbleweed Snapshot20210423
test installation on a KVM virtual machine.
Something went wrong during package installation
but I could not read the error message because
YaST exited and about one second later I was in
linuxrc with its ncurses Error/Exit screen.
Because what I actually wanted to do is
to "just try out something on Tumbleweed"
but that error exit interrupted my ongoing work
so I did not do a major mental task switch
to dig out the error message and YaST logs.
Instead I simply exited and retried with an
up to date openSUSE Tumbleweed Snapshot20210914
which worked.
I guess the error was so fatal that YaST could not do
anything else than to exit straight.
But the UX is poor in such cases because in practice
it is then basically impossible for the user
to make a meaningful issue report.
I wished there was an easy way how to get the error message
and YaST logs out of the installation system in such cases.
The installation system had Internet access
so if there was some YaST error exit dialog
where error message and YaST logs could be sent
e.g. to any email address or something similar
(which the user could enter/specify as he likes),
then it would be easy for the user to make later
(after he completed his current actual task)
a meaningful issue report.
Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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