[Splashy-devel] chvt problem fixed

[Luis M]

Hello all,

I just solved the chvt problem. It seems that when chvt is handled, it
sends a USR1 signal to Splashy. And since we were handling that to
update the progressbar by 1 tick, no changing of vt's were allowed.
And what makes it even more interesting, after a chvt was sent to
splashy (using the fifo), the exit command was ignored!

I fixed all that in svn. And I'll upload 0.1.8-0+19 which fixes that
and the excessive verbosemode detection. Now we have a set of
hard-coded ignore patters in splashy_search_pattern()
(common_functions.c). This is just a temporary solution.

By the way, the fsck detection code is not working. I was thinking
that splashy-init should detect fsck running (the same way it detects
other scripts) and send an "exit" signal to splashy. Perhaps after
sending a "print FSCK checking disks... Splashy will now exit" and
wait a few seconds for users to read that from their screens.

What do you think? This is all temporary fixes so that we can release
0.1.8 and plan what's next for 0.2.x and beyond. We should include
full fsck support in 0.1.9 (at least detection).

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Luis Mondesi
System Administrator
Kiskeyix.org

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