Comment 17 for bug 363271

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 10:50 +0000, ski wrote:

> But your point about having daemons running does have some truth to it,
> and to answer that, I don't see why the functionality of friendly
> recovery couldn't be whittled down to things that can be put in a single
> binary located on /, statically linked with ncurses and whatever else
> necessary to get these sorts of common tasks done.
>
This was pretty much my point ;-)

You want a recovery mode to be a bit more interactive, perhaps
interceding before each mount to manually do the filesystem check and
attempt to mount - and then help you diagnose mount errors.

And then step through each of them, until those are down.

Then spool forwards (maybe offering an interactive "Start foo? y/n" type
approach) until it's ready to start the display server.

And obviously if the display server doesn't start, help to diagnose
that, offer a fallback, etc.

This should all be done in the normal boot too - if fsck fails, friendly
recovery should pop up, not a shell.

Scott
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