[Splashy-devel] Bug#605662: upgrade-reports: removing splashy prevents booting (#512951)

[Simon Paillard]

Hi,

Though splashy has been removed from testing, lenny users with this package
will see their upgrade severely affected.

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:52:59AM +0100, Christian Meyer wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> I tried to provide this information to #512951 but it was not possible (fixed
> and archived since over 1 1/2 years).

In that case, you can unarchive the bug.
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#unarchive
 
> during a dist-upgrade from lenny to squeeze I removed (but not purged)
> most packages not in squeeze (see #597462: "splashy: Splash screen
> prevents gdm3 start").
> Because of this I got bitten by #512951 which still is in lenny (lenny is
> 0.3.13-3). Since it breaks all initscripts ("return: 24: Illegal number:
> Starting") and leaves the filesystem ro #512951 should be fixed in lenny, too.

Indeed, the fix is not in Lenny, but release team allow this fix to enter
stable-proposed-updates. 

<symoon> hi. though splashy has been removed from testing, lenny users who keep
it not purged will be affected by #512951 (fix not applied to stable), or if
still installed by kms issues (#546897).is it feasible to get the fix in s-p-u?
<jcristau> what's the fix?
<symoon> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/splashy/0.3.13-5.1/02_lsb-base-logging.sh_bug512951.diff
<jcristau> looks sane enough.

Dear splashy maintainers, could you upload a 0.3.13-3+lenny1 in
stable-proposed-updates based on 0.3.13-3 patched with
02_lsb-base-logging.sh_bug512951.diff ? 
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable
(or I can take care of the NMU)
 
> Workaround: booting via live CD and renaming /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh manually.
> After that, splashy is still called during startup (initrd?) and causes a
> "splashy: 'command not found'" IIRC, but that is less important. Please adress
> this, too.
 

-- 
Simon Paillard