Le dimanche 07 décembre 2008 à 08:55 +0000, Richard Hughes a écrit :
Which isn't really helpful, esp. as the messages I've seen say something like "Some program is stopping you from doing this" ... pretty much guaranteeing the next words out of the users mouth will be "die when I tell you too, scum sucking laptop, die; die; die!".
Right, and the sort of unstable user to say to their laptop "scum sucking laptop, die; die; die!" probably deserves to rebuild their rpmdb on next reboot.
I would be more constructive to tell the user what the blocking program is (command name, user, PID).
A lot of PK messages suffer from this kind of lack of details which is not helpful for the user and just makes him want to scream. Please try to give users *context* instead of vague maddening generic blurbs.
Remember, the user, not PK, is supposed to be in control. No black magic please.