Package: usplash
Version: 0.3e
Severity: important
Tags: patch
I just tested usplash in qemu using the latest sid packages and kernel
2.6.17. It failed to start complaining that /dev/null was missing.
I'm not sure why, but a fix is to create the device in the
init-top/usplash script before starting usplash. Hree is a patch to
enable it. I tested with it, and it solved the problem. It might be
an idea to add some if-test around it to only try to create /dev/null
if it is missing.
--- /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/usplash.orig 2006-09-02
17:55:04.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/usplash 2006-09-02
17:52:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
done
if [ $SPLASH = "true" ]; then
+ # Make sure /dev/null is available when usplash tries to start
+ mknod /dev/null c 1 3
+ chmod a+rw /dev/null
+
/sbin/usplash -c &
sleep 1
fi
Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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