Yesterday I wrote:
I'm trying to customize the firstboot process in CentOS 5 and have
come across a few issues that are driving me nuts. I'm sure they
are all upstream issues, but I don't have a RHEL 5 system to verify
them. I had these customizations working in CentOS 4, but things
that used to work then don't work now.
The main problem is that you can't validate user input. This
problem can be easily seen in the firstboot "Create User" module.
If you are in this screen, deliberately enter mismatched
passwords. You will get a warning that the passwords do not match,
but when you click OK to dismiss the warning you are taken to the
next screen. In CentOS 4, firstboot would stay at the current
screen until all user input had been validated. If you look at the
underlying Python code, when you returned "None" from the apply
method it would not exit the module in CentOS 4, but it does in
CentOS 5.
I also can't get the firstboot Display module to load. It ships
with "skipme = True", but setting it to false or removing that line
altogether does not show the module. It appears to me that there a
lots of issues with firstboot in CentOS 5. Actually, in my
environment (~40 desktops), CentOS 5 has been far less stable than
CentOS 4 (mostly Gnome issues with Terminal windows crashing and
window "flickering"). I've reported some of these issues before on
this list. My servers seem to be rock stable, though.
Anyway, for now I will have to live with these issues. Can I
report these issues in the Red Hat bugzilla database or do I need
to be a RHN subscriber to report bugs against RHEL5? I suspect
(but have not verified) that these issues have been addressed in
Fedora already.
Has anyone seen these issues? Is anybody using firstboot (or care
about it)? If there is there a better forum where I can go for
firstboot questions, please let me know. Ideally, I would like the
upstream provider to acknowledge this issue and include a fix in the
next update release, but how can I best make that happen?
Alfred
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