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

Mon Dec 19 05:23:24 CET 2011

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
+
+/usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm (drakxtools-backend):
+sub mkinitrd {
+    [...]
+    # after mkinitrd command:
+    add_boot_splash($initrd, $entry->{vga} || $bootloader->{vga});
+    [...]
+}
+sub add_boot_splash {
+    [...]
+    run_program::rooted($::prefix,
+'/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash', $initrd, $res->{X});
+    [...]
+}
+
+/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash (bootsplash):
+[...]
+$splash_dir/scripts/make-boot-splash-raw $initrd_file $THEME
+[...]
+
+/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash-raw (bootsplash):
+[...]
+/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd -t $tmp_dir/plymouth
+[...]
+
+/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd (plymouth-scripts):
+[...]
+    if [ -f "${PLYMOUTH_LIBEXECDIR}/initrd-functions" ]; then
+
+PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS="${PLYMOUTH_LIBEXECDIR}/initrd-functions"
+    elif [ -f "${MKINITRD_LIBEXECDIR}/functions" ]; then
+
+PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS="${MKINITRD_LIBEXECDIR}/functions"
+    fi
+
+    if [ -f "${PLYMOUTH_DATADIR}/dracut/dracut-functions" ]; then
+
+PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS="${PLYMOUTH_DATADIR}/dracut/dracut-functions"
+    fi
+[...]
+
+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 :)
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+