From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Come back and graphical installer Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:38:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87efbgx0p0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lg6sejwa.fsf@gmail.com> <87wopd88hq.fsf@gmail.com> <877ehcsocq.fsf@gnu.org> <87bm6oxsyf.fsf@gmail.com> <87a7m7yhu5.fsf@gmail.com> <878t1rygfu.fsf@gmail.com> <877ehbydmz.fsf@gmail.com> <87sgzykmyx.fsf@gnu.org> <877eh9245u.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOqJK-00010R-Ae for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:38:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOqJJ-0004tX-46 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:38:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877eh9245u.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:26:53 +0900") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mathieu Othacehe Cc: Guix-devel Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> In =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99 the process stopped after trying to = use =E2=80=9Cwired=E2=80=9D >> network. At that point I realized I couldn=E2=80=99t switch to other VC= s using >> Alt-F2 & co. Is that something specific to kmscon? Anything we can do >> about it? > > It might be a bug because the last step is supposed to be "User > selection". Currently after this step, the program exits and is > restarted (as the installer is the shell of the root process). > > For me it is possible to switch tty with ctrl-alt-fx on real hardware > and with alt-f2, sendctrlkey ctrl-alt-fx on Qemu. However, besides tty2 > which I kept as documentation, other tty are also root kmscon terminals > spawning the installer. Oh indeed, it=E2=80=99s ctrl-alt instead of alt. Perhaps this should be wr= itten on the welcome page of the installer? >> I think it=E2=80=99d be nice to have the new installer UI on tty1 and ye= t be >> able to just switch to root terminals or the manual on the other VCs. > > You mean, switching from > > tty1: installer > tty2: documentation > tty3-6: installer > > to, > > tty1: installer > tty2: documentation > tty3-6: plain root terminals > > right? Right. > That would require to find a new solution to spawn the installer on > tty1. I tried the 'login-program' way but I don't like it because the > installer does not have access to PAM env variables. Any other idea? I was going to suggest the =E2=80=98login-program=E2=80=99 way. :-) What= =E2=80=99s the story with PAM env variables? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.