[Splashy-users] splashy hangs on boot

[Andrew Pasquale]

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