Re: plymouth package issue

2011-05-05 Thread philipjm
Hello,

Concerning the warning, are there official information about hardware 
limitations of Plymouth? We are interested in providing a nice boot screen for 
our distro targeting children (DoudouLinux), it is then important for us to be 
sure there won't be too many hardware configurations that fail to boot. As a 
workaround I saw that Splashy is back to testing/unstable, a backport may be a 
good alternative, although it may not show as early as Plymouth does.

Cheers,
JM. Philippe

> I do not have an answer for you.  I do have a warning.
> 
> Plymouth will exclude a lot of hardware from booting and shutting down
> 
> with out messing with it.
> 
> My Dell XPS 420 (3 years old) with Radeon HD 2400 PRO will not boot 
> without removing splash from the instruction string of the menu entry.
>   
> Boot time varies from 2 to 20 minutes.
> 
> It will not shut down.  Alt+SysRq+b works.
> 
> plymouth.d is supposed to get the boot logs written.  I have fooled
> with 
> ubuntu with plymouth for 3 versions now and have yet to have my first
> 
> boot log written with plymouth in charge.
> 
> All that for something that should give you a few seconds of
> eyecandy.
> 
> Have FUN.
> 
> Hope your project works great.


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Re: plymouth package issue

2011-05-04 Thread Carlos Alarcon


> 
> 
> Great, that worked.
> By the way, if I want to change the theme from 'text' to 'script' theme
> 
> If I do 
> /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme script
> 
> just after the apt in the hook seems to return 1 instead of 0 and the
> hook fails ...
> 

I answer myself:
With the the following local hook, i can install and setup plymouth
properly.

echo "I: * Instalando el paquete plymouth *"
apt-get install -y plymouth
SALIDA=`/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme script`
/usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u


Thanks again for you help.


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Re: plymouth package issue

2011-05-04 Thread Carlos Alarcon

> c) since listing fontconfig-config before plymouth in your package list
> will not help (as we do install everything in one single apt call), list
> fontconfig-config in your package list, and install plymouth with an
> apt-get install call in a local hook.


Great, that worked.
By the way, if I want to change the theme from 'text' to 'script' theme

If I do 
/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme script

just after the apt in the hook seems to return 1 instead of 0 and the
hook fails ...





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Re: plymouth package issue

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/03/2011 06:34 PM, Carlos Alarcon wrote:
> cp: cannot stat `/etc/fonts/fonts.conf': No such file or
> directory^M

this is bug #612401.

you have three possibilities:

a) build a local plymouth package (with a higher number than stable,
e.g. 0.8.3-9.1+nmu1) and include the following fix:

  http://vcs.progress-linux.org/?p=packages/plymouth.git;a=commitdiff;
  h=2fde8e404a956c57ab0f60724e33e2b4cbf90782

b) build a local plymouth backport from unstable

c) since listing fontconfig-config before plymouth in your package list
will not help (as we do install everything in one single apt call), list
fontconfig-config in your package list, and install plymouth with an
apt-get install call in a local hook.

Regards,
Daniel

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Re: plymouth package issue

2011-05-04 Thread Carlos Alarcon
Thanks for the warning.
I haven't used plymouth ever but is the way I found to make boot process
nicer. If there are others I will thank any suggestion.
We need to make our Kiosk (pxe + nfs  netboot) bott process nicer since
marketing people don't like so many info at boot time and they want a
nice image with our log an so on ...

Regards

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Re: plymouth package issue

2011-05-03 Thread Tom&Karen Pino

On 05/03/2011 10:34 AM, Carlos Alarcon wrote:

Hi,

We are trying to have a plymouth splash image during boot time with our
debian-live distribution.

When we set the system to include such package we get the following
errors while building the image:

 Running depmod.^M
 Running update-initramfs.^M
 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686^M
 df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such
 file or directory^M
 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
 for module r8169^M
 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
 for module r8169^M
 cp: cannot stat `/etc/fonts/fonts.conf': No such file or
 directory^M
 E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return
 1.^M
 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686^M
 update-initramfs failed to create initrd image.^M
 Failed to create initrd image.^M
 dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (--configure):^M
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
 exit status 2^M
 configured to not write apport reports
 .
 .
 .

 Errors were encountered while processing:^M
  linux-image-2.6.32-5-486^M
  linux-image-2.6.32-5-686^M
  linux-image-2.6-486^M
  linux-image-2.6-686^M
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 P: Begin unmounting filesystems...



Is there anything special to be done in order to get this package
installed?

By the way we are using nfs netboot setup but I think is shouldn't
matter much, since I don get the image build at all.

I can attach the full binary.log if needed (I am not sure if it is
allowed to send files to the list)


Regards



I do not have an answer for you.  I do have a warning.

Plymouth will exclude a lot of hardware from booting and shutting down 
with out messing with it.


My Dell XPS 420 (3 years old) with Radeon HD 2400 PRO will not boot 
without removing splash from the instruction string of the menu entry.   
Boot time varies from 2 to 20 minutes.


It will not shut down.  Alt+SysRq+b works.

plymouth.d is supposed to get the boot logs written.  I have fooled with 
ubuntu with plymouth for 3 versions now and have yet to have my first 
boot log written with plymouth in charge.


All that for something that should give you a few seconds of eyecandy.

Have FUN.

Hope your project works great.


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plymouth package issue

2011-05-03 Thread Carlos Alarcon
Hi,

We are trying to have a plymouth splash image during boot time with our
debian-live distribution.

When we set the system to include such package we get the following
errors while building the image:

Running depmod.^M
Running update-initramfs.^M
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686^M
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such
file or directory^M
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
for module r8169^M
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
for module r8169^M
cp: cannot stat `/etc/fonts/fonts.conf': No such file or
directory^M
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return
1.^M
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686^M
update-initramfs failed to create initrd image.^M
Failed to create initrd image.^M
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (--configure):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
exit status 2^M
configured to not write apport reports
.
.
.

Errors were encountered while processing:^M
 linux-image-2.6.32-5-486^M
 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686^M
 linux-image-2.6-486^M
 linux-image-2.6-686^M
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...



Is there anything special to be done in order to get this package
installed?

By the way we are using nfs netboot setup but I think is shouldn't
matter much, since I don get the image build at all.

I can attach the full binary.log if needed (I am not sure if it is
allowed to send files to the list)


Regards



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