[Splashy-devel] Re: Bug#400598: splashy: RUNLEVEL not defined

[Luis]

On 12/2/06, Tim Dijkstra <tim at famdijkstra.org> wrote:
> Op Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:12:17 -0500
> schreef Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com>:
>
> > Otavio,
> >
> > I found other bugs in splashy-update-progress-steps. This patch fixes
> > those bugs as well. Please disregard the patch I sent before for that
> > file (see Bug # 400598 on DBTS).
> >
> > To avoid possible confusions, I added the full file as well. This is
> > assume to be used with Splashy 0.2.1.
> >
> > The idea is that simply listing the files in /etc/rcS.d and
> > /etc/rc2.d/[KS]* gives you symlinks that are not actually pointing to
> > files and scripts that do not all log_end_msg at all. This new patch
> > only cares about files calling log_end_msg for our progressbar.
>
> Hmm, my idea of taking also the other scripts into account was that
> those do matter for the startup time. I mean, if we a few scripts in
> S01, S02, S03 that call log_end_msg then tons that do not, we would
> hit 100% already in S03, while there is still lots of stuff to do.

Yes, I remember this. However, it creates a problem when the last
scripts do not call log_end_msg or call it under certain conditions
(see rc.local). At this point mostly all scripts call log_end_msg, so
we don't reach 100% before all the scripts are done. This works good.

> > The bug is triggered when you have scripts at the end of the resulting
> > step file that do not call log_end_msg. Leaving the progressbar in,
> > say, 94% and never completing to 100%, therefore, Splashy just sits
> > there waiting until it times out!
>
> I thought splashy got a signal to stop by [kgx]dm or something?


Splashy will be set to 100% as soon as it finds gdm/kdm/xdm or
anything that starts X. This bug is only triggered on machines that do
not have X. Like the vmware instance I'm using to test ;-)

>
> Well, I haven't looked at the code for a while. I was really busy
> finishing my thesis. The good news is, that it is just approved, so I
> can do some splashy develpement again.

This is very good news. Otavio is also getting some free time during
this month. And I'll have a few days after Dec 18th. We can definitely
push 0.3 closer to 0.4!

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