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authorAustin S. Hemmelgarn <austin@netdata.cloud>2023-05-30 12:54:13 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-05-30 12:54:13 -0400
commitf60c9e0953d235104a7d152628f98bf2a568f85b (patch)
tree09674e0637e213ac9df9b9e14271d7c84168d24b /packaging
parent1aef5a70d8ba6df58ae29cd320fb0f7c0eeca6f0 (diff)
Improve some of the error messages in the kickstart script. (#15061)
Diffstat (limited to 'packaging')
-rwxr-xr-xpackaging/installer/kickstart.sh6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/installer/kickstart.sh b/packaging/installer/kickstart.sh
index 4936a40fe4..689fc1efc8 100755
--- a/packaging/installer/kickstart.sh
+++ b/packaging/installer/kickstart.sh
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ confirm_root_support() {
fi
if [ -z "${ROOTCMD}" ]; then
- fatal "We need root privileges to continue, but cannot find a way to gain them (we support sudo, doas, and pkexec). Either re-run this script as root, or set \$ROOTCMD to a command that can be used to gain root privileges." F0201
+ fatal "This script needs root privileges to install Netdata, but cannot find a way to gain them (we support sudo, doas, and pkexec). Either re-run this script as root, or set \$ROOTCMD to a command that can be used to gain root privileges." F0201
fi
fi
}
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ common_dnf_opts() {
}
try_package_install() {
- failed_refresh_msg="Failed to refresh repository metadata. ${BADNET_MSG} or by misconfiguration of one or more rpackage repositories in the system package manager configuration."
+ failed_refresh_msg="Failed to refresh repository metadata. ${BADNET_MSG} or incompatibilities with one or more third-party package repositories in the system package manager configuration."
if [ -z "${DISTRO_COMPAT_NAME}" ] || [ "${DISTRO_COMPAT_NAME}" = "unknown" ]; then
warning "Unable to determine Linux distribution for native packages."
@@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ try_package_install() {
if [ -n "${repo_subcmd}" ]; then
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
if ! run_as_root env ${env} ${pm_cmd} ${repo_subcmd} ${repo_update_opts}; then
- fatal "${failed_refresh_msg}" F0205
+ fatal "${failed_refresh_msg} In most cases, disabling any third-party repositories on the system and re-running the installer with the same options should work. If that does not work, consider using a static build with the --static-only option instead of native packages." F0205
fi
fi
else