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