[Splashy-devel] Bug#455872: splashy: Fails to initialize, messes up loading other modules

[Luis Mondesi]

On Dec 12, 2007 3:13 AM, Georg Wittenburg <georg.wittenburg at gmx.net> wrote:

> Package: splashy
> Version: 0.3.7-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
>
> Hi!
>
> After upgrading to splashy 0.3.7, splashy fails to start with error code
> -3 from splashy_start_splashy().
>
> What is worse, several unrelated other modules fail to load afterwards,
> e.g. all sound drivers (snd_*) and the WLAN driver iwl4965. This
> effectively breaks sound and networking on my system.
>
> I haven't seen any suspicios messages in dmesg or syslog that would
> point to what exactly the problem is, but I could provide the output if
> necessary. As a workaround I removed "splash" from the kernel command
> line and the system works fine.
>
> Regards,
>
>   Georg
>

This looks like udev is not starting properly. Can you move
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/splashy to
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/z_splashy

and redo your initrd?

update-initramfs -u

That should allow udev to start first and it should fix your problem.

We will do a minor (bug fix) release shortly. If you can send us the result
of this test it will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

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