[Mageia-dev] dracut/plymouth broken...

Mon Dec 19 05:58:42 CET 2011

On 19.12.2011 06:23, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> On 19.12.2011 00:22, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>> Colin Guthrie skrev 19.12.2011 00:18:
+>>> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 18/12/11 21:57 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>> I: Wrote /boot/initrd-3.1.6-desktop-0.rc1.1.1.mga2.img:
+>>>> I: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6934831 dec 18 23:50
+>>>> /boot/initrd-3.1.6-desktop-0.rc1.1.1.mga2.img
+>>>> Need 'inst' function, try setting PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS to
+>>>> a file that defines it
+>>>> Option exclude requires an argument
+>>>> usage: cpio-filter [--exclude<PATTERN>] [--in-place] [<cpio file>]
+>>>
+>>> How did you trigger this? I've not seen this error. Do you have a
+>>> special/different plymouth theme set as default?
+>>>
+>>> Col
+>>>
+>>
+>> Nope, default plymouth theme.
+>>
+>> Triggered by simply installing a kernel with urpmi --auto-update
+[...]
+> So plymouth-scripts breaks as dracut-functions got moved, and the old
+> mkinitrd functions are no longer present after the obsoletes was added.
+> In addition, make-boot-splash-raw seems to not handle the failure
+> properly, creating empty initramfs instead.
+> 
+> I'm going to look at this right now to fix at least the first one. I'm
+> not 100% sure if this add_boot_splash() stuff is needed at all (for
+> customs bootsplashes maybe?), but I'll leave that for Colin to look at :)
+
+Fixed both the dracut-functions-not-found and error-not-handled issues in:
+plymouth-scripts-0.8.4-0.20111214.2.mga2
+bootsplash-3.3.6-1.mga2
+
+Either of these packages will prevent initramfs from getting truncated.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+