Bug#454917: splashy: timeout during startup

[Cyril Jaquier]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.5
Severity: normal

Hi all,

I'm a new Debian user and this is my first bug report and use of
reportbug. So please, forgive me if I did something wrong ;)

Every time I boot, splashy hangs up after a few second (the progress bar
shows maybe 5 or 10%).

1/ If I do nothing, after 2 minutes the screen switches back to text
mode and I can see:

Splashy ERROR: Timeout (120 sec) occurred while waiting for a message on
the Splashy socket

Then, switching to the second virtual terminal and typing a few random
keys make the boot process continue. However, splashy does not work
anymore (e.g. no splash screen during shutdown).

2/ If I press a single (random) key before the timeout occurs, then the
boot process continue. And then splashy does work as expected.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libmagic1 4.21-3 File type determination library us
ii libsplashy1 0.3.5 Library to draw splash screen on b
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Luis Mondesi]

Post by Cyril Jaquier
Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.5
Severity: normal
Hi all,
I'm a new Debian user and this is my first bug report and use of
reportbug. So please, forgive me if I did something wrong ;)
Every time I boot, splashy hangs up after a few second (the progress bar
shows maybe 5 or 10%).
1/ If I do nothing, after 2 minutes the screen switches back to text
Splashy ERROR: Timeout (120 sec) occurred while waiting for a message on
the Splashy socket
Then, switching to the second virtual terminal and typing a few random
keys make the boot process continue. However, splashy does not work
anymore (e.g. no splash screen during shutdown).
2/ If I press a single (random) key before the timeout occurs, then the
boot process continue. And then splashy does work as expected.
Regards,

This is a known problem with directfb doing an infinite loop on keyboard
events whenever the /dev filesystem changes (while Splashy is running).

Please use the latest version of directfb from unstable. (And also the
latest version of Splashy while you are at it).

Regards,

[Cyril Jaquier]

Post by Luis Mondesi
This is a known problem with directfb doing an infinite loop on keyboard
events whenever the /dev filesystem changes (while Splashy is running).

Yes, that's probably the problem I have. If the timeout occurs, I can
switch to tty2 and the last message is about "/dev" (sorry I don't have
my laptop at work).

Post by Luis Mondesi
Please use the latest version of directfb from unstable. (And also the
latest version of Splashy while you are at it).

I'm already using unstable. So I probably have the latest version of
libdirectfb (sorry I'm still at work). I would really like to install
the latest version of splashy too but it is not available for amd64 yet :(

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Regards,

Cyril Jaquier