https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471320
User jdsn@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471320#c3
J. Daniel Schmidt
1) Every other screen gives you the option to skip or go back. This screen doesn't. The UI should be consistent.
This proposal screen works exactly like every other proposal. First each module does its probing and a summary is presented. Then the user can change the settings and step back and forth. And speaking of consistency: this timeout message popup is used in various places in YaST and they all behave the same. It would brake consistency to change this single one.
2) The debugging steps you describe require expert knowledge, and they are doubly hard because the system never finished installing.
They were meant as a comment for you and not as a workaround for a default user.
3) A broken X config still gives me a usable (albeit text) system. I could pull in an old config or update driver without worrying that the install system is going to wipe everything I try.
Let me cite you: "The debugging steps you describe require expert knowlege."
As it is, you just never finish install.
Why? Watch the countdown and wait until the probing is finished or just press the "Ok" button, then the probing will start immediately.
All you need to do to fix this is to have stop return focus to the main screen (where "back" and "skip" can be used).
Again, the probing is not meant to be skipped for the given reason. If you encountered a bug with the probing please report the details here. The timeout message shown was added to inform the user that the screen may flicker and that he doesn't have to worry. Find the details for this change in bug #327604. Until now I could not find any bug description in this report.
The obvious next step is not to file a bug (that you won't look at for months and then close without doing a damn thing), but to switch distros.
So, why did you file this bug report in the first place, if do not believe that we look at valid bug reports. Honestly, this bug is most likely to become such a bug that I will no longer look at, right, but only due to the lack of a report of a failure. All you describe is working as expected. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.