Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 470461
Reusing home directory in firstboot needs improvement
Last modified: 2008-12-09 12:52:11 EST
Description of problem: If home directory already exists: 1) You get question about reusing home directory without description what operations will be done - does reusing means "recreate new empty directory"? 2) It takes a long time for all operations to finish without any progress bar or at least warning "Can take a few minutes" or something. 3) During these operations system looks like not responding. Yes/no dialog stays on screen with "yes" button pushed. When you move yes/no dialog or switch to other "console" and back, screen is not redrawn - stays empty. With hdd led looking like crazy and no information about operation it can look like heavy swap usage and not responding system. 4) During these operations hard disk is under heavy load. With combination of 1)="what is it going to do?" it makes user really unsure if his/her home directory is not being erased or if some other destructive operation is not running. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fedora with existing home 2. Add user with home directory already existing 3. Click "Yes" for "reuse home directory" Actual results: scared user Expected results: informed user Additional info:
(1) It means that the newly created user will own the home directory and everything in it. We won't create a new empty home directory. Fixed. This should also take care of the concerns in (4). (2) Added a dialog saying that the contents of the directory are having permissions updated. I don't think we can very easily show a proper progress bar, but a wait dialog should suffice to keep people from worrying too much. (3) I can't really take care of this without a major overhaul of how the UI works, I think. Hopefully with the text and dialog improvements, people won't be wondering what's going on and start switching around terminals trying to find out.