On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:10:40AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2008-09-21 at 23:54 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Why not start VESA to have some GUI and then ask questions.
Why not boot into failsafe mode after having seen this confusing error message "Login:" in the Linux console? Then, running X with
I would indeed be very pissed if the system rebooted on its own to safemode just because the X server failed to start.
Who proposed this? Not me.
No? The paragraph is yours. I'm happy to learn that I understood it wrongly. What did you mean, then? :-?
I did not propose to let the system reboot on its own to safemode. This is still a decision a user needs to take - as before.
Ok, that's better :-)
But why reboot at all? Better restart runlevel 5 in safemode, however that's defined (vesa?). If that fails, propose to reboot in safemode.
Chosing safemode means booting into runlevel 5. I suggest you give the safemode a try before further discussing this issue. Seriously. Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org