Ubuntu
sysvinit package

usplash pulsates intermittently during boot

Bug #264767 reported by Matt Zimmerman on 2008-09-04

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	sysvinit (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Aurélien COUDERC
	Intrepid	Fix Released	Low	Aurélien COUDERC

Bug Description

Binary package hint: sysvinit

This appears to be intentional, as checkfs.sh and checkroot.sh do usplash_write PULSATE (via splash_start_indefinite) before running fsck.

The end result, though, is that the progress bar very quickly flickers back and forth between a pulsating mode and normal progress through the boot, every time (regardless of whether a fsck is run).

Perhaps the progress bar could be left alone unless a long-running fsck is started?

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/oneiric/sysvinit

Matt Zimmerman (mdz) on 2008-09-04

Changed in sysvinit:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2008-09-04:

low importance for now, but we should do something about this for the release, as I think it will confuse users.

Changed in sysvinit:
importance:	Medium → Low

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Aurélien COUDERC (coucouf) wrote on 2008-10-11:

fsck-usplash-puslates-too-much.dpatch Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

Here's a fix.

I couldn't find any documentation on the standard way to provide patches.
Is it enough to post the patch here ? Otherwise can you tell me what I am supposed to do ?

Thanks.

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Aurélien COUDERC (coucouf) wrote on 2008-10-12:

Fix attached, needs review.

Changed in sysvinit:
assignee:	nobody → coucouf

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2008-10-13: Re: [Bug 264767] Re: usplash pulsates intermittently during boot

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:29:43AM -0000, Coucouf wrote:
> Here's a fix.
>
> I couldn't find any documentation on the standard way to provide patches.
> Is it enough to post the patch here ? Otherwise can you tell me what I am supposed to do ?

Yes, posting the patch here is the right thing to do.

--
- mdz

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2008-10-13

Changed in sysvinit:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-10-13:

This bug was fixed in the package sysvinit - 2.86.ds1-59ubuntu12

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sysvinit (2.86.ds1-59ubuntu12) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/check{root,fs}.sh: Disable indeterminate
    progress bar pulsing. Usually it is fast enough, and if there is a real
    fsck going on, we already have textual feedback (which is less confusing
    than the progress bar jumping back and forth). Thanks to "Coucouf" for the
    patch. (LP: #264767)
  * debian/initscripts/lib/init/usplash-fsck-functions.sh: Do not allow
    cancelling fsck if state is "clean with errors".