On Wed, May 9, 2007 8:23, Joey Hess said: > David Härdeman wrote: >> The 15-sec timeout are not really bugs in the sense that they'll degrade >> anything (it just doesn't look pretty). > > Having a system that randomly[1] flips out of the pretty graphics that a > user has come to expect and into some text mode thing that might as well > look like the system crashed, is not a particuarly good thing. > > [1] Due to a DVD being in the drive, dhcp taking longer than expected, a > DNS lookup having to timeout, etc.
I think the vast majority of those cases could be "fixed" by simply changing the default timeout to a minute or two... >> I think the biggest issue to >> solve here is fsck (and I think it could be solved with some shell >> trickery). > > If you mean detecting a fsck and handling it somehow, and dropping the > 15 second timeout, I agree. Yes, that's what I mean. I'll see if I have time to create a patch to the checkroot/checkfs initscripts... -- David Härdeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
