Bug 135984
| Summary: | rhgb switched mode back to summary automatically | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe> |
| Component: | rhgb | Assignee: | Daniel Veillard <veillard> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | barryn, jonathansavage, stefan.hoelldampf |
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| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-11-28 21:21:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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seeing this as well, when I switch to "show details" I get a few lines of output then goes back to gui, a few lines of outout, back to gui, etc.... Yes, agreed, I don't store whether going to detained view is done based on user intereaction or automatically, that would be an enhancement needed I agree. Daniel BTW, sometimes I see it go automatically to detailed view, then switch back *very* quickly (maybe after 1/4th of a second? it seems like 1/4th of a second anyway). This behavior seems ugly to me... (I'm not sure if that's related to this bug at all. If it's not, I'll comment on another bug or file my own later.) I think it's the same bug. There is a serious lack of consistency in the user experience of rhgb. There is no change in the rawhide for 2004-10-19 as far as this behaviour goes. Per Daniel's HOW_IT_WORKS: "rhgb will switch to detailed view when errors seems to be occurring. Basically if the initscripts didn't report progresses for 10 seconds rhgb will switch to detailed view to show what is happening, this can occur for example if a filesystem is being checked, or if some timeout occurs (network/DNS for example), once the timeout is over and further progresses are reported, then rhgb will switch back to the normal view." This behavior is a poor design decision. On my systems there are several delays in the boot process. This causes rhgb to switch back and forth between graphical mode and detail/text mode. The text mode does not remain on screen not long enough for me to read the data. This behavior is not useful and gives me the perception that the rhgb is buggy. The bug submitter has a valid point. If rhgb is in graphical mode it should stay in graphical mode regardless of the existence / or perception of errors. Once a user switches to "Detail" mode rhgb should remain in "Detail" mode. The "Detail/Graphical" state should be persistent and, it would be really great if it carried over through the next boot. This way users do not have to modify grub.conf to disable the utility. Take a clue from SuSE's graphical boot utility. rhgb should be as good as SuSE's utility or be replaced by it. Okay, then WONTFIX, Daniel An improvement would be to make that timeout a *lot* longer (say, 40-60 seconds). That way, DHCP stuff which can take well over 30 seconds in the real world wouldn't erroneously bring up the Details view automatically (well, not in general, anyway). This wouldn't be a 100% complete fix, but it would be a tremendous improvement over the current situation. And would miss kudzu which only waits 30 second. I see no reason why a DHCP should need that long, even when coming from an ISP. Daniel Why would DHCP take that long? Flaky (but still usable!!) 802.11b wireless connections. I measured approx. 35 seconds for DHCP in my case (I don't remember if that was my school's wireless network or the one at home). BTW, are you saying that the 10 second timeout is how rhgb decides to go to detail mode for kudzu?? (I just want to make sure I'm not misunderstanding you.) 10 seconds is the timeout after which it sounds normal to show that something is going wrong and rhgb decide to go in detail mode. It doesn't depends what is blocking, trying to put that logic in rhgb is not the proper place. Any operation taking more than 10 seconds without progress must be reported, that's the decision. Daniel |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: While viewing the "show details" screen of rhgb, the display switches back to "hide details" (summary) screen automatically. It dies this several times in the sequence if you switch back to hte show details page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhgb-0.13.5-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rawhide install of 2004-10-15 2. switch to show details during bootup 3. Actual Results: screen switches back to "hide details" mode automatically without user intervention. Expected Results: I expect it to stay on "show details" unless *I* tell it to "hide details"; it should not switch on its own. Additional info: this switch back to "hide details" occurs at several points in the bootup sequence. One consistent switch is when it goes to initialize the "lo" device of networking.