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usplash package

  1. Bug #264696
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 264696

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 264696] Re: usplash is not started on shutdown/reboot

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:38:15AM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I played around with this a little bit. Adding the usplash_down call to
> /etc/init.d/usplash "stop" fixes the bug to 80%, you still get some
> seconds of a black text screen with a cursor, until usplash kicks in
> (the time between killing gdm and calling K01usplash).

At least there are no text messages in that time (unless Network Manager
prints some?), which would be a great improvement.

> Calling usplash_down right before killing gdm doesn't help either, since
> gdm does too many VT switches, and it looks the same.
>
> So in order to avoid patching the gdm, kdm, ldm, and other *wm init
> scripts, fixing K01usplash is a safe and nonintrusive bandaid for
> intrepid at least (should look roughly as good/bad as hardy, which
> wasn't seamless either).

Sounds good to me.

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 - mdz