[Splashy-devel] Bug#458959: Bug#458959: crashes on start

[Mark Walling]

Joey,

Two things to check here:
 - Does `splashy test` work for you after the system has come up?
 - does /proc/cmdline contain "vga=791 splash"?

<http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/faq#i_don_t_see_any_image_at_boot_time>

Thanks,
Mark

Joey Hess wrote on Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:21:15PM -0500:
> Package: splashy
> Version: 0.3.7-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Here splashy dies just after it starts, before displaying any graphics.
> 
> Typed in by hand:
> 
> Regenerating splash steps for [snip]
> 
> Splashy ERROR: Couldn't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -2
> 
> splashy[pid]: segfault at 0000000c eip b7ee527d esp bff4afd0 error 4
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages splashy depends on:
> ii  initramfs-tools         0.91d            tools for generating an initramfs
> ii  libc6                   2.7-5            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            2.14.4-2         The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libmagic1               4.21-4           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-8 compression library - runtime
> 
> splashy recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo



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