[Splashy-devel] Fwd: initramfs issues

[Luis]

Hey, I thought you guys would like to read this email. This is from
one of Ubuntu's developers about unicode_* scripts...

My guess is that we will need to patch those scripts so that if the
splashy pid file exists, it doesn't run. And have splashy-init run the
appropriate unicode_* script (according to the locale setting) when
splashy exits (making sure that the PID file is deleted before running
it of course).

That's unless somebody has a better idea.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3.net>
Date: May 19, 2006 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: initramfs issues
To: Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com>


Luis wrote:
>
> To put it in short, splashy runs fine from the console, but when we
> run it from initramfs, when unicode_start (or unicode_stop) start,
> something gets corrupted (garbled fonts shown in the screen) and the
> boot process stops. Splashy times out in 2 min of not being able to
> read from it's fifo (/dev/.initramfs/splashy.fifo) and if one switches
> to TTY2 and presses ENTER, the boot process continues just fine (but,
> no splashy showing).

The unicode_start magic does two scary things.  It mangles the loaded
font, and it has to switch to every console in turn to do so.  When
usplash is running, we just skip out on running it altogether, and do it
in the half-second between killing usplash and starting gdm.

If you need help debugging it, I don't mind, but it would have to be
after dapper's release (June 1st), as I'm incredibly busy with the
release right now.  Since splashy isn't distributed in the Ubuntu
archive, that shouldn't be a problem for you, since you can keep
updating it and tweaking it after the release (while I can't really do
the same for stuff we're shipping in two weeks) :)

... Adam



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