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

[Luis Mondesi]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> 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.

The steps on the progressbar move by the scripts calling
log_daemon_msg() (see /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh). If file-rc is not
using LSB functions to start daemons during boot, then the progress
bar won't work and a different scheme will be needed.

I've never used file-rc myself (don't even know why it exists). Is
this a popular way to boot Linux systems nowadays?

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