Package: plymouth
Version: 0.8.5.1-5
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I apologize for my previous bug report having evidently confused you. I'm
reporting a bug in Debian Wheezy (Stable), not Jessie or Sid. As such, the
bug certainly isn't fixed in Stable. It's inappropriate to close it until
a corrected version has been submitted for inclusion in Stable, and I don't
see Plymouth in stable-proposed-updates. So, I'm opening this one that we can
use as a reminder until a fixed Plymouth has been processed.
Debian ships a Stable operating system and has Testing and Unstable versions
to ensure that the next Stable version is bug-free - Stable is Debian's
product, and the version of Plymouth included in it is currently broken.
As noted:
Plymouth in Wheezy errors out. I'm having difficulty capturing output of the
error and might have to resort to some camerawork if I can't find something
logged.
I observe two errors. First, something Plymouth is doing either directly or
indirectly results in a denied lookup for information associated with UID 0.
Second, the plymouth init script returns failure consistently. (This is with
a fresh install of Wheezy.)
I'll add more to the ticket as I'm able to capture it. But for now, this
largely destroys Plymouth's appeal, as rather than covering boot messages, it
generates errors that wouldn't be there otherwise, both foreshortening its
screen coverage and adding worrisome error messages to the boot process.
Makes Debian look shabby having things broken in Stable, and as such if this
is something known and fixed in Jessie or Sid, it ought to be applied to
Wheezy. I don't know that this is the case with this package, but I'd like us
to avoid any unfortunate situation in which the flagship product of Debian is
neglected for any reason. Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages plymouth depends on:
ii initramfs-tools0.109.1
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii multiarch-support 2.13-38
plymouth recommends no packages.
Versions of packages plymouth suggests:
ii desktop-base 7.0.3
ii plymouth-drm 0.8.5.1-5
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf changed:
[Daemon]
Theme=fade-in
-- no debconf information
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