[Splashy-devel] Bug#505270: confirm still problems with splashy 0.3.13-1

[Joar Jegleim]

Hi,

I still got problems with splashy  0.3.13-1 .

Running Debian Lenny:
joar at jupiter:~$ dpkg -l | grep splash
ii  libsplashy1                          0.3.13-1 
Library to draw splash screen on boot, shutd
ii  splashy                              0.3.13-1                    A 
complete user-space boot splash system
ii  splashy-themes                       0.4.1                       A 
complete user-space boot splash system

Kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64

joar at jupiter:~$ dpkg -l | grep direct
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0                    1.0.1-11 
direct frame buffer graphics - shared librar

I'm getting:
Splashy error: connection refused
Splashy error: couldn't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -10

when booting.

I also get errors when /etc/init.d/splashy tries to start:
/usr/share/splashy/themes/default/theme.xml xml file not found
no error image at /usr/share/splashy/themes/default
splashy line 170 setterm not found


my /usr is at a dedicated partition.
setterm is on my system:
joar at jupiter:~$ which setterm
/usr/bin/setterm

And I confirm that Tim Richardson's hack make my splashy operate again:
"In the process of trying to debug this, I discovered that I can make it
boot properly if I create the file
/etc/directfbrc

and include this one line in the file

log-file=/tmp/directfb.log
"

I've been kinda struggling with splashy on and off the last couple of 
weeks, but haven't really done any methodically debugging.
My experience has roughly been like this:
-Installed splashy, and it worked
-Changed theme, and it stopped working
-did a couple of #update-initramfs -u over again and it was back
-splashy stopped working again (unknown why)
-reset to default theme, didn't work the first boot but it was suddenly 
back at second reboot
-total reinstall of splashy, purging before reinstall, worked
-change theme, stopped working again
-at some point I renamed /etc/rcS.d/S03udev to /etc/rcS.d/S03audev, and 
it made splashy work again, but again it broke after changeing theme.
-resett to default theme today and started more thorough debugging, and 
found this bug.

My impression is that 'something' brakes after shifting theme, and it 
doesn't solve itself by going back to the default theme.

I haven't tried hardcopying the themes folder to /etc/splashy, will try 
that and get back to you.


regards
Joar Jegleim