[Splashy-devel] Bug#455685: Splashy makes GDM initscript fail (and hence, leaves system on VT1)

[Luis Mondesi]

On Dec 14, 2007 4:36 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Luis Mondesi wrote:
> > If you still see this error, can you send me copies of your
> /etc/init.d/gdm
> > and /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh scripts?
>
> I also got the problem and I didn't touch to any of those files. So you
> should be able to duplicate easily by installing gdm and splashy in the
> same chroot/virtual machine.
>
> Here's the output of "sh -x /etc/init.d/gdm" when I had the problem.
> Removing the package was not enough to solve the problem, I had to purge
> it so it proves that the propblem comes from /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh.
>
[snip]

> + '[' 2 -gt 1 -a 2 -lt 6 ']'
> + '[' -x /etc/init.d/keymap.sh ']'
> + '[' x0 '!=' x0 ']'
> + /etc/init.d/keymap.sh start
> + '[' -x /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh ']'
> + '[' x0 '!=' x0 ']'
> + '[' x0 = x0 ']'
> + umount /lib/init/rw/splashy
>

Thank you very much for this information!

I can see a few things wrong with this. Splashy lsb-base-logging.sh is
assuming that  gdm will be started once and stop once. And it also assumes
that this happens at boot.

I'll modify the script and do a quick release to fix these issues.

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