Bug 74895 – Firstboot is not graceful when RHN is being registered

Bug 74895 - Firstboot is not graceful when RHN is being registered

Summary:	Firstboot is not graceful when RHN is being registered

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	firstboot (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Brent Fox
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Duplicates:	74724 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2002-10-02 13:08 EDT by Stephen John Smoogen
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-01-26 15:14:18 EST
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Description Stephen John Smoogen 2002-10-02 13:08:03 EDT

Description of Problem:

If during the firstboot, the RHN servers are not available then the user is left
in an awkward state. There is no feedback that anything/nothing is going on, and
if the sub-process dies... it seems to just come back asking if you want to
register or not.

How Reproducible:

Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install system and reboot
2. do the NTP etc.. but cause RHN not to be available somehow
3. watch the system sit there without any feedback.

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2002-10-14 16:56:30 EDT

Agreed.  This did not get much testing for various reasons.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-10-14 17:03:02 EDT

*** Bug 74724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Stephen John Smoogen 2003-01-26 15:14:18 EST

Tested in latest beta. Problem seems to have been fixed. Firstboot is also MUCH
more graceful when dealing with not being able to start X.

Kudos.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2003-01-27 14:36:04 EST

Thanks smooge.  Your help is invaluable and much appreciated.

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