[Splashy-devel] Bug#524518: splashy: grep and pidof are not available in initramfs

[Arno Schuring]

Subject: splashy: grep and pidof are not available in initramfs
Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.13-4
Severity: normal

After adding "splash" to the kernel command line, I get the following
error messages on the console:
/scripts/local-premount/splashy: 35: grep: not found
/scripts/init-bottom/splashy: 14: pidof: not found

I've examined the initramfs, but these executables simply do not exist
there:
aschuring at neminis:/tmp/tst$ zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 | cpio -i
aschuring at neminis:/tmp/tst$ find . -name grep
aschuring at neminis:/tmp/tst$ find . -name pidof
aschuring at neminis:/tmp/tst$


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable'),
(100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools        0.93.2            tools for generating an
initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-0      1.2.7-2           direct frame buffer
graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.3-3         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.0-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1              5.00-1            File type determination
library us
ii  libsplashy1            0.3.13-4          Library to draw splash
screen on b
ii  lsb-base               3.2-22            Linux Standard Base 3.2
init scrip
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages splashy suggests:
ii  console-common                0.7.80     basic infrastructure for
text cons
ii  splashy-themes                0.4.1      A complete user-space boot
splash
ii  upstart                       0.3.9-2    event-based init daemon

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