[Splashy-devel] Bug#597462: splashy: Splash screen prevents gdm3 start

[Andreas Pflug]

Package: splashy
Severity: important

This is probably the wrong package to blame, but I currently can't locate a
better one.

I've installed a Thinkpad freshly with Squeeze-AMD64 two weeks ago with GRUB2
and splashy, and dist-upgraded regularly. Hibernation worked fine, splashy's
Tux went to sleep and woke up all right.
Some days ago, I realized that apt-get dist-upgrade runs didn't update-
initramfs of the kernel version I'm running (2.6.32-5-amd64), but only the
initial 2.6.32-trunk-amd64. so I ran update-initramfs -k all manually and the
problem started.
With the fresh initrd, the machine would start with the splash screen, but the
Gnome desktop wouldn't appear; the machine is frozen and needs a hard reboot.
To boot anyway, I need to remove "splash" from the kernel cmd line.

I uninstalled splashy, and switched to plymouth, but the problem is the same:
splash screen appears, some more disk access, but no gnome.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools         0.98.2           tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-5         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9       1.2.10.0-4       direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-8        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.1-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1               5.04-5           File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1             0.3.13-5.1+b1    Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages splashy suggests:
pn  console-common                <none>     (no description available)
pn  splashy-themes                <none>     (no description available)
pn  upstart                       <none>     (no description available)