[Splashy-devel] Bug#421442: splashy: end of shutdown briefly switches to full console text display

[Geoffrey L. Brimhall]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.2
Severity: normal

I'm assuming one of the goals of splashy is to completely hide the
console during startup and shutdown.

In shutdown, at the very end ( ie from the "halt" ), it appears splashy
is killed in final termination of all processes - when this occurs the
full shutdown console text is shown briefly about 1 second before
computer shuts down.

Even though this is brief, it still distracts from a seamless graphical
startup/shutdown.

Problem is there is no way to keep halt from stopping splashy process.
Any way to redirect the shutdown console output so it is blank, so that
when splashy is killed a nice black blank screen is displayed ?

If other people don't get this behavior, have an smp dual-core system,
maybe this is causing a difference ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.1-i8-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.4-2     The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libmagic1                   4.17-5etch1  File type determination
library us
ii  libsplashy0                 0.3.2        Library to draw splash
screen on b
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-13   compression library -
runtime

Versions of packages splashy recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.1
init scrip

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