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

[Marc Haber]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.10-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

file-rc is a package that provides a sysv-rc interface and replaces
the runlevel startup links with a single configuration file
/etc/runlevel.conf.

Unfortunately, file-rc does raise some issues with splashy or
vice-versa: When file-rc is installed, splashy's progress bar stays at
zero, and the text box that can be invoked with F2 stays empty. The
system boots fine though.

In a test VM that I installed to investigate this, splashy also
doesn't terminate nicely when file-rc is installed, and the kdm screen
never comes up. After removing file-rc, things were fine again.

I do not know whether file-rc needs modifications to interface better
with splashy, or whether splashy interprets hints from file-rc in the
wrong way. So please feel free to (clone and) reassign to file-rc, and
- if necessary - give directions to the file-rc maintainer which hints
it needs to give to splashy to properly work.

Greetings
Marc

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.7-scyw00225 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools        0.92b             tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.7-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0      1.0.1-9           direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-2         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.3-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1              4.24-2            File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1            0.3.10-2          Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base               3.2-12            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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