Please don't trap me at the "Restarting Device" page

cnr · July 13, 2020, 6:32pm

The restart button

traps me with the Restarting [Name]… info screen

When I have multiple devices to restart this can be annoying. Could this be something I click to acknowledge and I can bypass?

Ereski · July 13, 2020, 6:53pm

Hi. One possibility is using the balena-cli restart command. Just be careful if you are doing too many requests per second as the API has rate limits.

Ereski · July 13, 2020, 6:54pm

Either backgrounding the restart task (using bash’s &), or xargs with -P should do the job nicely

cnr · July 13, 2020, 9:30pm

I’ll stick with hitting the restart button next to each container, that ends up being a bit faster because I can leave to a different page and do it there.

jimsynz · July 13, 2020, 9:49pm

Hi again @cnr,

I’ll open an issue for our UI team to take a look at.

Thanks for reporting this.

James.

fritz · July 20, 2020, 5:12am

+1 from me.
The fullscreen overlay is disruptive / annoying, esp. when you want to monitor the restart procedure in the logs.
Thank

georgiats · July 20, 2020, 10:11am

Thanks for the feedback @fritz, it’s highly appreciated.
We’ve shared the request with our product and UI teams.

georgiats · July 20, 2020, 11:48am

Hey @cnr,
as a workaround, in case you need to restart multiple devices, you can select multiple devices from the device list and issue a restart from the actions dropdown menu.
That’ still non-escapable, but it will allow you to issue multiple devices restarts at once.