Bug#414640: initramfs-tools: message printed when root timeout exceeded is too terse

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:46:56AM +1100, Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au wrote:
> 
> >it is terse on purpose, it is a 2 liner in the sense that not too much
> >info scrolls off, we need it for the bug report.  it has been shown that
> >user think that those last lines are _bug_ relevant!?
> >if you enhance current text in 2 lines i'd be happy to reconsider.
> 
> Thanks for your reply, I was not sure what the constraints are.
> 
> So you're saying the user thinks these lines are part of the error
> message? I think that might be in part because the panic() line is
> printed after the "helpful advice" message. I doubt that much can
> be done about that, unless panic() can print multiple lines of
> warning messages.

panic prints the message you supply it so we could change the order,
if that makes the trouble more understandable?
 
> Is the attached version any better? Hopefully the text is not too
> wide now. If it still doesn't fit, let's drop it.

yes looks cool too me,
will add it for next version.
 
thanks for the patch.

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maks