[599] in athena10
Re: Installer changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Nov 5 12:36:15 2008
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:35:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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The debathena install script addresses point 1. I'm not sure how recently
the two installers have been synced.
As far as point 2, we can prompt the user to /etc/init.d/gdm restart,
which should be enough. I think we also configure GDM to restart itself /
X on user logout, but I don't think that takes effect for the current
session.
There are other conditions under which we want to force a restart, too,
for instance if openafs-modules-generic pulls in the latest modules along
with the latest kernel, and we need a reboot for the kernel upgrade before
OpenAFS works.
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> A couple of points on the install script:
>
> 1) At the end, it should say something like "Install complete", rather than
> just leaving the user with some aptitude output.
>
> 2) If users install debathena-workstation, it should instruct them to reboot,
> so that they get the Debathena login screen. (Yes, I'm sure there are other
> ways to kick gdm, such as restarting X, but rebooting is the easiest and
> simplest way)
