[Splashy-devel] Bug#455872: splashy: Fails to initialize, messes up loading other modules

[Luca Capello]

clone 455872 -1
submitter -1 Luca Capello <luca at pca.it>
retitle -1 should start after udev
found -1 0.3.7-1
severity -1 important
thanks

Hello!

IMHO this bug was a mix of two: the one related to the libdirectfb
version and the other one related to udev.  While the first one is
closed, the second one remains, thus the cloning (-1).

BTW, I cc:ed all the people involved in the bug, but setting myself as
the new submitter.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:47:11 +0100, Luis Mondesi wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 3:13 AM, Georg Wittenburg <georg.wittenburg at gmx.net> wrote:
>> After upgrading to splashy 0.3.7, splashy fails to start with error code
>> -3 from splashy_start_splashy().
>>
>> What is worse, several unrelated other modules fail to load afterwards,
>> e.g. all sound drivers (snd_*) and the WLAN driver iwl4965. This
>> effectively breaks sound and networking on my system.

I can reproduce it (but with error code -2) booting with just "splash"
(so no fb) on my sid-amd64.  Various unrelated modules are messed up,
e.g. X cannot start because /dev/agpgart doesn't exist (and manually
loading the intel-agp module doesn't change anything).

> This looks like udev is not starting properly.

Indeed udev has some problems with splashy, here the output I recorded
on my MiniDV:
=====
Starting the hotplug event dispatcher: udevdSplashy ERROR: Connection refused
Splashy ERROR: Coudln't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -2

splashy[1588]: segfault at 0000000000000018 rip 00002611de7774c7 rsp 00007fffce751248 error 4
=====

> Can you move /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/splashy to
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/z_splashy
>
> and redo your initrd?
>
> update-initramfs -u
>
> That should allow udev to start first and it should fix your problem.

This works only when splashy is inside the initramfs.  For the other
case, you need to move the splashy rc script after udev, something like

  $ mv /etc/rcS.d/03splashy /etc/rcS.d/z_splashy

This fixes the problem and splashy nicely starts :-D

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca