[Splashy-users] splashy hangs on boot
Andrew Pasquale
andrew at elytra.net
Thu May 18 02:44:52 UTC 2006
Hi, I've installed splashy 0.1.8-0+31 on sid. It works well on shutdown and
using '/sbin/splashy test', but during boot it hangs. The graphics and
progress bar appear, but the progress bar never changes. I can see the hard
disk access light flashing and eventually the Wireless light flashes on. I
suspect this is the initramfs continuing to load. The keyboard won't respond
during this process. Eventually, after more than a minute I see on VT1:
FATAL: module fbcon not found
FATAL: module vesafb not found
I suspect these aren't related to the problem since the framebuffer is working
fine. vesafb is compiled in, and I'm using vga=792 as a kernel option in
grub.
I can then switch to VT2 where I can see the output from udev loading. If I
hit enter here, the init process continues normally, without splashy.
I was not able to use the update-initramfs -u tool since it says:
'/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16 has been altered. Cannot update.' Instead I've
used 'mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16'. I'm running a custom kernel
because my laptop has a SATA hard drive and I've compiled in all the relevant
modules.
I've seen the following error message, but it seems not to affect the
performance of splashy. I think it might only happen on some themes. I can
try to reproduce if it might be important.
** (process:8363): CRITICAL **: _xml_parser_compare_element: assertion
`_node->got_text == TRUE' failed
I like the way splashy looks and I'd like to get it working on my machine.
I'd appreciate any suggestions to troubleshoot this problem.
Thanks,
Andrew
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