[Splashy-devel] Bug#411473: splashy: Error message during boot and no splash screen

[Benjamin Eikel]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.2
Severity: normal

I installed the splashy and splashy-themes package on my laptop, added the "splash" option to my boot options but splashy does not 
work. I am using a self-built kernel (no debian package) and no initrd.
I get the following error messages during boot:

Splashy ERROR: Connection refused
Splashy ERROR: Couldn't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -3

The splash screen is neither shown on boot nor on shutdown.

On my desktop PC (Debian unstable, same kernel version and no initrd too), the same procedure (installing packages, addding kernel 
parameter, reboot) works for me. The splash screen is displayed during boot and shutdown there.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (550, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-belt
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.6-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1                   4.19-1       File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy0                 0.3.2        Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-13   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages splashy recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-23     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

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