[Splashy-devel] Bug#478308: splashy: does not capture as much text as usplash does

[Marc Haber]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.8-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

after trying both splashy and usplash, I must say that usplash does a
significantly better job in capturing init script output. When booting
a rather minimal Debian sid with splashy, all I see is:

Starting Boot splash manager: splashy
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd
Reloading OpenBSD Secure Shell server configuration: sshd
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd
Starting internet superserver: inetd
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd
Starting periodic command scheduler: crond

usplash, otoh, shows a lot about file systems being mounted etc, which
allows one to see better what's going on. For example, when a crypto
partition is to be mounted using dm-crypt and LUKS, one just has to
guess when to enter the key, while with usplash, you see a "setting up
$LV_NAME" before the boot process prompts (invisibly, of course) for
the key.

That being said, splashy is of course the much better option and
rocks, compared to usplash.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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        0.92              tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0      1.0.1-8           direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-3         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.3-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1              4.23-2            File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1            0.3.8-1           Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base               3.2-11            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

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