[Splashy-devel] Bug#478305: Bug#478305: splashy: splash screen not removed

[John Hughes]

Marc Haber wrote:
> retitle #478305 splash screen not removed
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:40:25PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>   
>> when bootup finishes on a system that does not start an X server after
>> booting, the splash screen remains on display, and no key is accepted
>> to switch back to the console.
>>     
>
> Same thing happens on a system that starts kdm after bootup. I also
> don't see the progress bar moving at all, and splashy does not time
> out at all (I have waited six minutes, which is triple the time that
> my system usually takes to display the KDM login screen).
>
> Underneath the splash, the system seems to run fine, at least the
> power button seems to be processed correctly, the system shuts down
> orderly and switches itself off.
>
> Removing the "splash" from the kernel command line allows the system
> to boot normally.
>
>   
Almost certainly this is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462626.

init breaks splashy's connection to the console so it can't switch back
to text mode.