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

[Luis Mondesi]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de<mh%2Bdebian-bugs at zugschlus.de>>
wrote:

> 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
>

The bootsripts provided with Splashy use LSB functions to calculate steps,
print scrolling messages, and update the progress bar, among other things.

It's difficult to code around all the possible boot scripts and methods.

Note that Splashy itself does not require any scripts. This falls on the
end-user to write scripts to calculate steps and update the progress bar
according to their own distribution methods.

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Luis Mondesi
Maestro Debiano

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