The splash utility in the bootsplash package can't find the animations.cfg because of a wrong string constant in splash.c (animations during startup/shutdown can't be displayed by the splash executable). According to the current path's in the bootsplash package, #define SPLASHDSC "/etc/bootsplash/themes/current/config/animations.cfg" should be changed to #define SPLASHDSC "/etc/bootsplash/default/config/animations.cfg" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Fixed in 0.6-r2. Please test.