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Bug 74895

Summary:	Firstboot is not graceful when RHN is being registered
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Stephen John Smoogen <smooge>
Component:	firstboot	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0
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Description Stephen John Smoogen 2002-10-02 17:08:03 UTC

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 20:56:30 UTC

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

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-10-14 21:03:02 UTC

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

Comment 3 Stephen John Smoogen 2003-01-26 20:14:18 UTC

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 19:36:04 UTC

Thanks smooge.  Your help is invaluable and much appreciated.