Why is the console interface left so primitive?. Seems it would at least have a usable mouse so one could have some chance of copy paste when there are what appear to be important messages written to console.
This is only a problem, of course if you cannot manage a gui boot for whatever reason, you are fairly dim witted and not very knowledgeable about where to find the problems enumerated in the console messages, or the solaris logging, error tracking etc scheme. I have messages on my console that came following a complete power failure and reboot, I'm told to use fmdump to find information from the `EVENT-ID' but of course those IDs have scrolled past the visible console screen. I see no way to dump the screen or copy in any way the messages now scrolled past... further even the ones still visible would require taking them down in longhand and moving to a different machine to relog in via ssh or such. Seems ridiculous on the face of it to have such a primitive console in 2010. And finally there is one helpful bit in the messages that tells me to find more info at: sun.com/msg/FMD-8000-6U That gets me redirected to: https://identity.sun.com/amserver/UI/Login?org=self_registered_users&goto=http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-67-FMD-8000-6U-1 Which appears to be pretty useless for finding what these messages might mean. And is apparently some mess done by the new oracle crew. It seems these console messages would at least conclude with a final line telling user where to find the messages that have been written to console... Well, yeah I suppose I'm supposed to know that already but to my mind the logging and error records are quite complicated on solaris, or at least it seems so given my linux background. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
