On Dec 15, 2007 12:05 PM, Alessio Gaeta <<a href="mailto:alga777@libero.it">alga777@libero.it</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>I can confirm this bug, it happens on my machine too. The problem shows<br>itself only when the parameter "splashy" is passed to the kernel. If I<br>remove it, the system boots normally, but for the bug #455685 (Splashy
<br>makes GDM initscript fail.<br><br>Symptoms are the same: splashy fails to start with error code<br>- -3 from splashy_start_splashy(), no sound, no usbhid, no networking...<br>Hotplugging doesn't work at all, modules aren't automatically loaded and
<br>modprobe rules aren't satisfied (i.e. I have a rule to load usbnet whith<br>cdc_subset, but when I plug my Linux Ipaq in the cradle the module<br>cdc_subset isn't loaded; if I probe the module manually the module
<br>usbnet isn't automatically loaded.<br><br>I noted that when starting without the parameter "splashy" i can see the<br>log line<br><br>Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.<br><br>but with splashy activated that line doesn't appear. So I guess it is a
<br>udev (odd-)interaction problem (or maybe a more complicated<br>splashy/udev/initramfs-tool, seen problems of update-initramfs with<br>udev...).<br><br>Moreover, it happens that if I reboot and temporary delete the initrd
<br>line from GRUB (my kernel can boot without initrd, but I need it for<br>uswsuspend), boot fails because /dev is completely screwed up.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Hello,<br><br>Sorry for taking so long to reply (holidays are almost here!)
<br><br>Can you do a test for me?<br><br>As root, run the following on your system:<br><br>mv /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/splashy /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/z_splashy<br>update-initramfs -u
<br><br>make sure that you put back "splash vga=791" to your kernel boot parameters. Note that it's not "splashy" but "splash".<br></div></div><br>Also, I have attached 2 scripts to this email. /etc/lsb-
base-logging.sh and /etc/console-tools/config.d/splashy. Please use this scripts to replace the ones that you have. These come straight from our Git repository (See more here <a href="http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/developers">
http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/developers</a>).<br><br>Please report back your experience.<br><br>If this is too much for you to do, then you can hold on for the next Splashy revision (which should come out pretty quickly).
<br><br>Regards,<br><br>-- <br>----)(----- <br>Luis Mondesi<br>Maestro Debiano<br><br>----- START ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------<br>Gur Hohagh [Yvahk] qvfgevohgvba oevatf gur fcvevg bs Hohagh gb gur fbsgjner jbeyq.
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