[Splashy-devel] Bug#511604: splashy: There is no /usr at boot time

[Thomas Renard]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.13-3
Severity: normal

The head line is provoking of course ;-)

splasy does not work if there is no /usr at boot time.
Just create a system with a separate /usr partition install splashy and try
to boot. 

This will not work because this violates the very very old law: 
"never ever put stuff in /usr or /var needed for boot time" because 
they may not exist before mounting.

Splashy does not work because all themes are in /usr/share/splashy/themes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

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

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools        0.92o             tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0      1.0.1-11          direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1.1       GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1              4.26-1            File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1            0.3.13-3          Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 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 
pn  upstart                       <none>     (no description available)

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