Re: Should I report a failure to boot?
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:15:16PM +0200, Michael Burschik wrote:
>> In other words the installer should actually work with with persistent
>> names and this is a release goal for the Debian Installer for "lenny".
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/LennyGoals
>> (look under Major Goals).
> Okay. However, I do think this is a rather serious problem,
Yes, it is a serious problem. But it's not a kernel bug (everything the
kernel does is by design and will not be changed), and it's not a simple
matter to fix it in the installer where we know it needs to be fixed.
> Furthermore, you can't expect all users to be able to fix the problem,
> especially if it is not intermittent, as in my case,
The case you're describing is always an intermittent one, by nature.
> but permanent, which would require the use of a rescue disk, etc. In a
> production setting, this might also be a major catastrophe.
In a production setting, I would hope there's someone available who knows
how to use a rescue disk. :/
> Thank you for your efforts. I am fully satisfied with the response I got
> from this mailing list. However, I would like to repeat that I was not at
> all satisfied with the response from the bug owner.
I'm sorry, but the kernel package in particular is one that requires the
maintainers to be able to triage a large number of bugs very quickly,
including reports about issues that are known to not be kernel bugs.
Courtesy is often a casualty.
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