[Splashy-devel] Bug#487412: Bug#487412: Bug#487412: splashy: does not play fine with file-rc

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 10:02:55PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:46:55PM -0400, Luis Mondesi wrote:
> >> The bootsripts provided with Splashy use LSB functions to calculate steps,
> >> print scrolling messages, and update the progress bar, among other things.
> >
> > So splashy should work with file-rc as well since file-rc uses the
> > init scripts from the packages. Or does splashy expect special
> > handling inside /etc/init.d/rc and/or /etc/init.d/rcS as well?
> 
> It doesn't. I don't see where it can fail. Did someone checked why it fails?

I don't know enough about the mechanisms to verify (and I have not yet
set up a VM wird classical sysv-rc for comparision), but with file-rc,
the progress bar does not move at all, while normal system boot works
fine.

Greetings
Marc

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