[Splashy-devel] Bug#505270:

[Tim Richardson]

Neil,
hi. I'm the original reporter, although by now I think it is clear that
many people see this bug. For me, it is 100% reproducible.

I only use stock Lenny i386 kernels, and I don't have /usr on a separate
partition. I certainly use initramfs, since I'm using a stock kernel.

I reproduce this on a laptop with a completely reinstalled lenny/sid
(separate /home partition). I repeat that I in fact see this problem on
all three of my machines, all of which are using standard lenny i386
installs, none of them with a separate /usr partition.

Agree that it is not reproducible on virtual machines. 

I've put some more info about the bug at comment 161, the result of some
hours of work on my part. I have narrowed down where the bug is
happening quite specifically. directfb complains that it can't find one
of its standard directories.

Clearly this is do with changes after splashy 0.3.10, when this bug did
not occur. I suppose the significant change is the move of the script to
local-premount. Some people report intermittent problems. The workaround
may work simply because of timing changes (according to directfb
developers).

I suppose there is no chance that the initramfs is unmounted while the
splashy script is running?