Running kernel 2.6.0-test9 patched with bootsplash version 3.1.2, bootsplash ebuild 0.6-r2 and baselayout 1.8.6.12. When the system boots in silent mode, no updates are seen on the screen. The progress bar doesn't move and the init messages never print. When it is switched to verbose mode, you can see why. There are useage messages printed out for /sbin/splash as each script executes. The problem is that the init scripts (functions.sh, in function splash_update) call /sbin/splash "${myscript}" "${action}" when in fact it should be calling a helper script that calls fbtruetype to print the message and echos a value into /proc/splash to update the progress bar. /sbin/splash is only called to set the theme for the console or to add themes to an initrd. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install patched kernel 2. merge bootsplash 3. boot.
Created attachment 21847 [details, diff] Comment incorrect calls, add progress bar handling (functions.sh) This patch activates the progress bar. All variables needed are already in there, but somehow the call is never done. It also comments the incorrect calls done to the splash tool, which doesn't know what to do (and floods the logs with messages about that). In my opinion, this is the first step towards making splash=silent workable for Gentoo users. I have had fbtruetype calls in place, but there is no way to erase text put on the screen (at least, none that I've found), so, that's something for later.
Tony, I applied your patch but still have not progress bar and getting usage messages after each service when switching to verbose mode with F2... there is one more place with /sbin/splash, it is rc_splash() function
Oops, sorry. I don't know why, but my functions.sh was not a symlink to /sbin and i patched useless file... now progress bar working fine. thanks a lot.
Okay, glad to hear it works for you. I'm working on animation support and the "Press F2 for verbose boot" message, but I'm not attaching any patches until that works flawlessly.
I can confirm this patch works, too (well, i didn't apply it using patch but typed the things in the functions.sh using vim *g*)
Confirmation this patch worked for me :) Just as a side-note, the file to patch is /sbin/functions.sh and *not* /etc/init.d/functions.sh; this should be a symlink like so: ln -sf /sbin/functions.sh /etc/init.d/functions.sh
Patch worked perfectly for me also! Thanks!
bootsplash-0.6-r3 has been committed to CVS. It should solve these issues and shouldn't require patching of functions.sh (there are already splash functions in baselayout). See Bug #21019 for more info. Sorry for the delay in getting this fixed.
