Bug 472077

Summary:	No icon on login screen to access boot warnings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher Beland <beland>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	fedora, krh, notting, rstrode, rvokal
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Description Christopher Beland 2008-11-18 16:39:57 UTC

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10preview/en_US/What_is_New_for_Installation_and_Live_Images.html#sn-Plymouth 
says that with Plymouth there is "a status icon on the login screen to view boot warnings".  I do not see such an icon (not holding down any keys), even though at least one of the services produces an orange WARNING status on startup. I do see the messages in /var/log/boot.log as promised.

This is with plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.12.4.fc10.x86_64

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-11-18 19:10:07 UTC

Hi, we only seem to tell plymouth to show show the icon in the case of errors, not warnings.

Just needs an initscripts tweak to /etc/init.d/functions

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-18 19:17:32 UTC

Hm, the only place we really have warnings in the stock initscripts is 'we fscked; it passed'. It's certainly doable, though.

Comment 3 Charlie Brej 2008-11-18 19:32:24 UTC

The viewer program does have code to show in the bottom bar whether a warning or an error happened. Currently it is set to just show error (if the /var/log/boot.ini and the plymouth/boot.ini files are linked) or nothing.

We could parse the file (if it is linked) and determine if we want an error or a warning icon. I'm just not sure what keyword to trigger on and how general this would be.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-18 19:41:09 UTC

... I thought the veiwer was triggered on --details being passed to plymouth.

Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-11-18 20:10:41 UTC

yea.  the history is the program used to actually scan the boot log looking for the word "[ FAILED ]" or "[ WARNING ]".  Before I merged it (it was a patch from Matthias) I got rid of that and just made it react to --details.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 05:33:58 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 7 Christopher Beland 2008-12-22 21:58:39 UTC

This is working OK in F11 rawhide with plymouth-0.6.0-2.fc11.x86_64.