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when my home is not available, my linux returns to the login screen so fast I can't tell anything happened. after a few stabs at that I ctrl-alt-pop a console t

when my home is not available, my linux returns to the login screen so fast I can't tell anything happened. after a few stabs at that I ctrl-alt-pop a console tty to see what it says. I've created an additional wheel user with $HOME in the root just so I have a place to log in and and look around. of course it's always been the unix way to be strong-silent without have a lot of "informative" message clutter, so I'm generally sad to see it friendlied up.

marcosdumay 4y ago
> of course it's always been the unix way to be strong-silent without have a lot of "informative" message clutter Unix is for silent success. I don't think there is any overall culture about what to do on errors. But anyway, when you lose your home dir, your computer becomes obviously broken. Your a bit more than mine, but it's the obviousness that is important. (Anyway, I don't gain anything from the extra functionality my system holds when compared to yours. It's always a hardware problem, a X session is useless.)