Bug 1410

Summary:	ability to set net profile choice timeout at boot time
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Denis Prost <denis.prost>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Olivier Blin <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	balcaen.john, denis.prost, marcello.anni, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA2TOO
Source RPM:	drakx-net	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Denis Prost 2011-05-24 17:27:49 CEST

/bin/netprofile waits only for 5 seconds (at line 251) for the user to choose which net profile he wants. That's few, maybe good for reactive users (to which I do not belong !). It would  be nice if that timeout could be set in MCC net profiles settings dialog.

Comment 1 John Balcaen 2011-05-24 18:23:51 CEST

As a workaround you can add some boot options on grub command line using NETPROFILE= on the commande line so you'll be able to choose your profile directly on grub.

CC: (none) => balcaen.john

Comment 2 Denis Prost 2011-05-24 18:37:19 CEST

Thanks for the tip, John.
I could also edit /sbin/netprofile to raise the timeout.
But my remark was mainly to find a solution most suitable to beginners and, to me, what makes Mageia (like Mandriva) very user-friendly is its simple Control Centre (unlike opensuse YAST) and the ability to configure through it almost everything one may want to configure. 
It's true one may configure several grub entries through MCC for each profile, but it's a more complicated solution.

Denis Prost 2011-05-24 21:11:14 CEST

CC: (none) => denis.prost

Marcello Anni 2011-06-27 12:14:08 CEST

CC: (none) => marcello.anni

Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-11 12:49:07 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => drakx-net

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-24 21:32:53 CEST

I don't have a /bin/netprofile, but in /sbin/netprofile it is line 248 for me, and still 5 seconds.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:03:24 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 5 Denis Prost 2012-06-07 18:21:10 CEST

Still valid for Mageia 2

Marja Van Waes 2012-06-10 17:21:09 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA2TOO

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2015-04-19 14:13:18 CEST

Sorry, but this bug saw no action since more than 2 yrs ago. 
No cauldron package has stayed the same since then.

Closing as OLD

Please reopen if this report is still valid for _current_ cauldron and/or fully
updated Mageia 4

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD