On Dec 22, 2007 12:11 PM, Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had the same issue with gdm not starting when splashy is installed. > > I have checked line 178 of /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh but in the version > installed on my system this line is a comment so I can not see how, in my > case, that line could be causing the error. > > The failure mechanism seems to be that /etc/init.d/gdm has performed 'set > -e' so that any command that fails, even if there is no error message or the > message is surpressed by re-directing to /dev/null, will cause > /etc/init.d/gdm to stop executing at that point. With splashy installed and > its corresponding /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh the log_daemon_msg subroutine > is failing and thus aborting /etc/init.d/gdm. > > I haven't had a chance to work through all the commands splashy is running > but perhaps there are some assumptions there that don't hold true. For > example, in my case, splashy was installed because it was recommended by > uswsusp and is therefore used for the suspend/resume progress screen but I > have not yet got around to setting it up for normal startup/shutdown. > > Anyway, for now, I have been able to work around this patching /etc/lsb- > base-logging.sh as follows: > > diff -u lsb-base-logging-orig.sh lsb-base-logging.sh > --- lsb-base-logging-orig.sh 2007-12-22 17:09:34.000000000 +0000 > +++ lsb-base-logging.sh 2007-12-22 17:03:52.000000000 +0000 > @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ > > # Stop splashy on *dm > case $2 in > - ?dm) stop_splashy;; > + ?dm) stop_splashy || return 0 ;; > esac > } > > So even if attempting to stop splashy fails gdm still starts. >
Hello Steve, Thanks for suggesting this fix. We included this in our latest script [1]. This will be released as Splashy 0.3.9. Please note that Splashy 0.3.8 included code that prevented this from happening by doing the right thing when stop_splashy is called: - only run keymap.sh if splashy prevented it from starting. do the same for console-screen.sh - only umount Splashy's steps dir if it's mounted However, it doesn't hurt to have "|| return 0" in the log_daemon_msg() call as well. Splashy 0.3.8 will be added to the debian archives soon. It has not been added yet because we are all in "holidays" mode and the whole release/bug-fix cycle has been reduced in speed ;-) If you are reading this bug and you are having problems with gdm or any other script, please just grab a copy of lsb-base-logging.sh and replace your /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh copy with this [1]. Notes: 1. http://git.debian.org/?p=splashy/splashy.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/lsb-base-logging.sh;hb=HEAD -- ----)(----- Luis Mondesi Maestro Debiano ----- START ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------ Gur Hohagh [Yvahk] qvfgevohgvba oevatf gur fcvevg bs Hohagh gb gur fbsgjner jbeyq. ----- END ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------
