[Splashy-users] splashy v3.3 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - progress bar not working

[Luigi]

On 6/28/07, Ivars Strazdins <ivars.strazdins at sets.lv> wrote:
>
> Hello Vincent,
> thank you for answer.
>
> >> 1) progress bar not working;
> >>
> >
> > That may come from this steps:
> >
> >> 3. changed /etc/default/splashy line
> >> ENABLE_INITRAMFS=0 to ENABLE_INITRAMFS=1
> >> 4. regenerated initrd
> >> sudo update-initramfs -u
> >>
> This ended with no splash screen at all. At boot time I get these
> messages:
>
> Reading files needed to boot...
> (Re)generating splash steps for:sed: can't read /etc/inittab, no such
> file of directory
> And usual text boot messages continue to appear with no graphics
> whatsoever.
> >   But this problem can come from the fact ubuntu doesn't have
> > the /lib/init/rw directory, we use it to store the progress steps, you
> > may look at if this directory exists (a splashy sub-directory should be
> > present too).  Without this directory the progress bar can't work,
> > except if you change this path in the splashy init file.
> >
> Sorry, I don't understand, should I change this path in
> /etc/splashy/config.xml ?
> And where do I create /lib/init/rw , in my root filesystem or in
> initramfs image?
> >> 2) "splashy test" fails with
> >> Splashy ERROR: Couldn't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -2
> >> and leaves crash dump in /var/crash
> >>
> >
> > It's probably because you aren't root, try with sudo splashy test.
> >
> >
> This helped indeed.
>
> With kind regards,
> Ivars



Hello,

I was working on this very issue last month. I got all that stuff committed
to SVN. If you get the sources from the repository and compile a debian
package, you will be able to run Splashy after making sure that you change
/etc/default/splashy and point the STEPS directory to /dev/shm (the tmpfs
that Ubuntu and all other Linux distros mount r/w during boot).

Perhaps is time to release a minor release that addresses these issues.

I'll make sure Splashy is ready for Gutsy, before this is released ;-)




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