BootMessages

Revision 2 as of 2007-10-29 17:44:47

Clear message

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Summary

There needs to be a robust and reliable mechanism for messages to be output from the boot process to usplash, the console or whatever else is running (speech daemon?) These messages should not overwrite running gettys, etc. These messages may require progress bars or prompts of their own (fsck, cryptsetup) and may require the ability to be cancelled. As well as the standard messages, other output should be captured and logged.

Release Note

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It is mandatory.

Rationale

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Use Cases

Assumptions

Design

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Implementation

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UI Changes

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Code Changes

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Migration

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  • data migration, if any
  • redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
  • how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

Test/Demo Plan

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Outstanding Issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

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  • message output
  • logging of messages
  • not over top of getty
  • cancelable fsck
  • per-job logging?
  • usplash hooks
  • speech hooks

Comments

use splashy http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=477426 or unite (like compiz and beryl did) into one: avoid wasting resources --ubuntu idea pool (forums)


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