[Splashy-devel] Bug#512419: Couldn't splashy_start_splash error -3

[Cade Robinson]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.13-3
Severity: important

On boot I get the error:
Splashy ERROR: Couldn't splashy_start_splasy(). Error -3
and then:                                               
Splashy ERROR: Connection refused                       

I am using the Debian compiled kernels so splashy is in initramfs.
I am also using a single partition for /.                         
I have /home as a separate partition but only one big /.          

I have tried purge and reinstall.
I have tried with 2.6.26 and 2.6.28 kernels.

I am using grub-pc so I added this line to /etc/default/grub and ran
update-grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="vga=791
splash"                                      

My grub.conf lines:
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28-1-amd64" {
        set root=(hd0,3)                            
        search --fs-uuid --set 3ba3cdd4-790b-4e94-a3ca-48c129b55272
        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-1-amd64
root=UUID=3ba3cdd4-790b-4e94-a3ca-48c129b55272 ro quiet vga=791 splash

initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-amd64                                                                    
}                                                                                                                  
...                                                                                                                
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux
2.6.26-1-amd64" {                                                               
        set
root=(hd0,3)                                                                                           
        search --fs-uuid --set
3ba3cdd4-790b-4e94-a3ca-48c129b55272                                                
        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64
root=UUID=3ba3cdd4-790b-4e94-a3ca-48c129b55272 ro quiet vga=791 splash

initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64                                                                    
}                                                                                                                  
...                                                                                                                

Running "splashy test" after boot gives the same -3 error.

My video card is an Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics
Controller

I have tried to add "video=intelfb" to the kernel options but I get
errors that splashy isn't configured correctly.

I did have this working before but I don't know what version of splashy
was working as I was trying out Ubuntu
for a bit and then came back to Debian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (999, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools        0.92o             tools for generating an
initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.9-0exp1         GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0      1.0.1-11          direct frame buffer
graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-3         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.18.4-1          The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libmagic1              4.26-2            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
pn  splashy-themes                <none>     (no description available)
pn  upstart                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information
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