Bug#410623: [Splashy-devel] Bug#410623: splashy: Fails to create directory in read-only /lib/init/rw

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:52:07 +0100
Georg Wittenburg <georg.wittenburg at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Tim!
> 
> On Monday 12 February 2007 15:19, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:42:47 +0100
> > Georg Wittenburg <georg.wittenburg at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > Package: splashy
> > > Version: 0.3.0
> > > Severity: important
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > After upgrading to splashy 0.3, the splash screen is only shown on
> > > shutdown but not when booting. Quite early in the boot process, just
> > > after "(Re)generating splash steps for", an error is displayed saying
> > > that mkdir could not create /lib/init/rw/splashy due to the file system
> > > being read-only.
> >
> > I think we are missing a depends on the version of sysvinit that
> > mounts /lib/init/rw/splashy.
> >
> > Which version of sysvinit do you have?
> 
> sysvinit 2.86.ds1-38

That is odd. This seems a bug in sysvinit then. Can you very
that /lib/init/rw is not mounted? 
	df | grep init

Are you using a debian kernel?

grts Tim