Package: splashy Version: 0.3.10-2 Severity: important Hello,
When I implement splashy_update in an initscript, splashy freezes shortly after the input dialog is displayed. The exact behaviour seems to vary, but mostly I'm able to characters which are displayed as asterisks (as expected), but after pressing <return> nothing happens. I just can continue to input. After repeating that several times, splashy freezes completely. Neither <alt>+<f2> nor <esc> work anymore. I discovered that behaviour while testing splashy support for cryptsetup with a patch by John Hughes: http://bugs.debian.org/492451. The patch adds splashy support to askpass, a program that's used by cryptsetup to read passphrase input both from initramfs and initscript. First I thought that the bug was in the patch by John, but then I discovered that the patch works without issues when askpass is invoked at initramfs stage an only freezes splashy when invoked from the cryptsetup initscript (/etc/init.d/cryptdisks). After some discussion with (the very helpful and responsive) blathijs in #splashy on IRC I found out that the patch by John is very similar to the code of splashy_update, and after further testing I discovered that even splashy_update freezes splashy when invoked from an initscript. I created a test-initscript which does nothing else but '/sbin/splashy_update "getpass testprompt"' when started, and even that initscript freezes splashy in the way I described above. I decided to accept Johns patch after that, as at least the passphrase prompt for an encrypted root filesystem (started at initramfs stage) is supported that way. Also, what I've written above leads to the assumption that the bug is in splashy itself, neither in the askpass patch by John, nor in the cryptsetup initscript. The description of issues related to cryptsetup and askpass is that verbose as I send a copy of the message to bugreport #492451. Ignore it if it's not relevant for you. greetings, jonas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-1-amd64-resivo (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages splashy depends on: ii initramfs-tools 0.92e tools for generating an initramfs ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdirectfb-1.0-0 1.0.1-10 direct frame buffer graphics - sha ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-8 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libmagic1 4.25-1 File type determination library us ii libsplashy1 0.3.10-2 Library to draw splash screen on b ii lsb-base 3.2-15 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime splashy recommends no packages. Versions of packages splashy suggests: ii console-common 0.7.79 basic infrastructure for text cons ii splashy-themes 0.4 A complete user-space boot splash pn upstart <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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