GNU bug report logs - #36069
Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC

Previous Next

Full log

Message #11 received at 36069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 13:25:52 +0200

Hello Ludo,

thanks for looking into this.

> On 5. Jun 2019, at 12:39, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> I’ve never used noVNC, but doesn’t it allow you to zoom out or
> something?  The kernel (KMS) knows what it’s doing, so it seems to me
> that the problem is that noVNC doesn’t realize what the actual screen
> size is.  Does the Internet have something to say wrt. noVNC vs. kmscon?

I don’t seem to get any controls to resize the display; in previous
situations it has seemed to switch modes correctly automatically. That
said, I’m happy to believe that the bug is with noVNC — I’ve reported
it with arpnetworks and will pass it on to noVNC once I know which
version is running.

> BTW, for your VPS, wouldn’t it be easier to bypass the installation
> altogether?  That is, you write a config that you want to use, you
> create a QCOW2 image or whatever is suitable for your VPS, and you boot
> that directly.

That’s a nice idea; it turns out that this provider does not appear to
give access to the disk images.

Thanks,
Robert

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.