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

Georg Wittenburg georg.wittenburg at gmx.net
Wed Dec 12 08:13:13 UTC 2007


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


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools         0.90a            tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                   2.7-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0       1.0.1-5          direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.2-4        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.3-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1               4.21-3           File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1             0.3.7-1          Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

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