On Monday 15 December 2008, 11:20:31, Tim Richardson wrote:

> Debian has a boot splash program called splashy which uses directfb v1
> Recent changes to splashy cause a start-up failure on my three Debian
> machines. The error occurs in a code that's initialising directfb. The
> recent changes move the initialisation earlier in the startup, to hook into
> premount.

Did you filed a bug in the Debian Bug Tracking System?

> The use of /tmp seems to be necessary; /root didn't work.
> I don't actually see any such file /tmp/directbflog when the system
> finishes booting.

This happens only because the /tmp on the initramfs is no longer available, 
the /tmp after the boot process ended is on another filesystem.

Try to boot with "break=init-bottom" to be dropped on a busybox shell and look 
there.


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