[Splashy-devel] initramfs progress in Sid

[Luis]

I installed Splashy in a clean Sid system using the Splashy 0.1.8.1-3
package from Sid's repository and followed the README as is to enable
Splashy from initramfs. The only steps I didn't do were those related
to finding unicode_* commands in initrc scripts and dealing with
them... that didn't seem to be an issue in Sid.

After Splashy starts from initramfs, it gets killed and restarted at
least 2 times by splashy-init (or so it feels). I went to splashy_init
and remove the code in "start_server" that calls "$SERVER" $command
and "starts" the Splashy daemon. Removing that allowed Splashy from
initramfs to run by itself until the point that one of the pesky
unicode_* commands get started. At that point the boot process is
stopped and Splashy dies 2 min later (because it's not receiving input
from the FIFO file).

I'll continue working on this... I'm guessing that the unicode_* stuff
might not be the culprit here... We might be facing a fundamental
issue with initramfs processes. (filehandles left open?)

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Luis Mondesi
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