[Splashy-devel] Bug#454917: splashy: timeout during startup

[Luis Mondesi]

On Dec 8, 2007 4:40 AM, Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier at jaqpot.net> wrote:

> Package: splashy
> Version: 0.3.5
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a new Debian user and this is my first bug report and use of
> reportbug. So please, forgive me if I did something wrong ;)
>
> Every time I boot, splashy hangs up after a few second (the progress bar
> shows maybe 5 or 10%).
>
> 1/ If I do nothing, after 2 minutes the screen switches back to text
> mode and I can see:
>
> Splashy ERROR: Timeout (120 sec) occurred while waiting for a message on
> the Splashy socket
>
> Then, switching to the second virtual terminal and typing a few random
> keys make the boot process continue. However, splashy does not work
> anymore (e.g. no splash screen during shutdown).
>
> 2/ If I press a single (random) key before the timeout occurs, then the
> boot process continue. And then splashy does work as expected.
>
> Regards,
>
>
This is a known problem with directfb doing an infinite loop on keyboard
events whenever the /dev filesystem changes (while Splashy is running).

Please use the latest version of directfb from unstable. (And also the
latest version of Splashy while you are at it).

Regards,

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