Control: tag -1 + wontfix moreinfo - patch 14.10.2013 14:45, Thiemo Nagel wrote: > severity 726298 wishlist > retitle 726298 Give guidance to console-switching installer users > reassign 726298 busybox > tags 726298 + patch > thanks > > It's all my fault. I just realized that X is fine, I just didn't > expect it to live on console #5. Maybe the attached patch could help > prevent others falling into the same trap?
First of all, somehow I haven't noticed this bugreport until now. Here's your patch: From d2e289c95d454ec752af14b18b417ce30fca741d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.na...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:34:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add help message to inactive consoles --- a/init/init.c +++ b/init/init.c @@ -485,7 +485,10 @@ static pid_t run(const struct init_action *a) #ifdef CUSTOMIZED_BANNER #include CUSTOMIZED_BANNER #endif - "\nPlease press Enter to activate this console. "; + "\nPlease press Enter to activate this console. " + "(Hit Ctrl-Alt-F5 to return to the graphical " + "installer or Ctrl-Alt-F1 for the text-mode " + "installer, respectively.) "; This is completely wrong. There's no reason X installer should be running on tty5 or text-mode installer on tty1. This patch breaks regular use of busybox, because outside of the d-i environment, there's no reason to expect the installer to be running at all. As far as I remember, things are actually documented in the installation manual, isn't that not enough? Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a34b7f.8080...@msgid.tls.msk.ru