Bug#258877: marked as done (using menu item return code to reboot system is fragile)
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From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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Subject: using menu item return code to reboot system is fragile
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Package: main-menu
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Recently the way d-i does an exit/reboot was changed, so that menu items
may pass a special code 11 or 12 to main-menu, which then exits with
that same code, and causes rootskel to halt or reboot the system. This
change has made d-i less robust.=20
It means that if some menu item goes haywire and happens to return one
of these codes, the system will inexplicably reboot. Compare it to the
other magic exit code, 10, which just makes main-menu lower the priority
and display the menu, an inherently safe action. But with this reboot
thing, something goes wrong and the system may just reboot itself
unexpectedly, which will be a joy to debug, I'm sure.
This is a fundamental misdesign. It should be reverted.
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see shy jo
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From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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Subject: Bug#258877: fixed in main-menu 1.00
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Source: main-menu
Source-Version: 1.00
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
main-menu, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
main-menu_1.00.dsc
to pool/main/m/main-menu/main-menu_1.00.dsc
main-menu_1.00.tar.gz
to pool/main/m/main-menu/main-menu_1.00.tar.gz
main-menu_1.00_i386.udeb
to pool/main/m/main-menu/main-menu_1.00_i386.udeb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 258877@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:19:42 -0400
Source: main-menu
Binary: main-menu
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.00
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description:
main-menu - Debian installer main menu (udeb)
Closes: 258877
Changes:
main-menu (1.00) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Bastian Blank
- Check for availability of debian-installer/language.
* Christian Perrier
- Rename templates file to main-menu.templates
* Joey Hess
- Remove the EXIT_QUIT and EXIT_RESTART return code handling
as that is no longer used. Closes: #258877
- This may as well be 1.0 with the rest of d-i.
* Updated translations:
- Catalan (ca.po) by Jordi Mallach
- Danish (da.po) by Claus Hindsgaul
- Greek, Modern (1453-) (el.po) by Greek Translation Team
- French (fr.po) by French Team
- Japanese (ja.po) by Kenshi Muto
- Lithuanian (lt.po) by KÄ?stutis BiliÅ«nas
- Latvian (lv.po) by Aigars Mahinovs
- Bøkmal, Norwegian (nb.po) by
- Polish (pl.po) by Bartosz Fenski
- Turkish (tr.po) by Recai OktaÅ?
Files:
7accdef8ed24ce7ac7674920e302a5ab 789 debian-installer standard main-menu_1.00.dsc
34a605148d2881a6a65e822d1ab6fbf8 32449 debian-installer standard main-menu_1.00.tar.gz
83840c62b21363f83f370a4cc8df149e 15970 debian-installer standard main-menu_1.00_i386.udeb
package-type: udeb
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