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

[Alessio Gaeta]

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I can confirm this bug, it happens on my machine too. The problem shows
itself only when the parameter "splashy" is passed to the kernel. If I
remove it, the system boots normally, but for the bug #455685 (Splashy
makes GDM initscript fail.

Symptoms are the same: splashy fails to start with error code
- -3 from splashy_start_splashy(), no sound, no usbhid, no networking...
Hotplugging doesn't work at all, modules aren't automatically loaded and
modprobe rules aren't satisfied (i.e. I have a rule to load usbnet whith
cdc_subset, but when I plug my Linux Ipaq in the cradle the module
cdc_subset isn't loaded; if I probe the module manually the module
usbnet isn't automatically loaded.

I noted that when starting without the parameter "splashy" i can see the
log line

Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.

but with splashy activated that line doesn't appear. So I guess it is a
udev (odd-)interaction problem (or maybe a more complicated
splashy/udev/initramfs-tool, seen problems of update-initramfs with
udev...).

Moreover, it happens that if I reboot and temporary delete the initrd
line from GRUB (my kernel can boot without initrd, but I need it for
uswsuspend), boot fails because /dev is completely screwed up.

Regards

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Alessio Gaeta
meden.uni.cc
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