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Bug 688787 - Useless "connection failed" error
Useless "connection failed" error
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: --
Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: 696727
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-21 09:48 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2016-03-31 14:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
boxes screenshot (133.72 KB, image/png)
2012-11-21 09:48 UTC, Bastien Nocera
Details

Description Bastien Nocera 2012-11-21 09:48:13 UTC
Created attachment 229557 [details]
boxes screenshot

gnome-boxes-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64

"Connection to ...iso failed"

Plenty wrong with the handling. First, the animation to grow the screen grab gets cancelled mid-flight, and that looks pretty bad. Make it grow to the full size, and show the error there (with the only option to go back).

The second problem is that error reporting should give enough information to the user to be able to fix the problem. In this case, I have no idea what the problem could be from the message. The fact that I can't get to VM itself also means I can't gather information about the VM.

Finally, why does it fail?
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2012-11-21 10:06:57 UTC
The final problem is solved, see bug 688793.

You can reproduce all the above by moving the ISO file for a live CD away.
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2014-05-06 15:27:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=229557) [details]
> boxes screenshot
> 
> gnome-boxes-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64
> 
> "Connection to ...iso failed"
> 
> Plenty wrong with the handling. First, the animation to grow the screen grab
> gets cancelled mid-flight, and that looks pretty bad. Make it grow to the full
> size, and show the error there (with the only option to go back).

We don't do that animation anymore so thats not an issue any more.
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2014-05-06 15:29:30 UTC
Rest of the bug is pretty much duplicate of bug#688793 so I'll mark this as obsolete.