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Bug#843998: plymouth theme missing for softwaves



Le 04/01/2017 à 16:31, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Am 04.01.2017 um 15:41 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> Am 04.01.2017 um 14:59 schrieb Aurélien COUDERC:
>>
>>> For fsck/others I think the support is to be done… everywhere else !
>>> Basically we've taken inspiration (read blindly copied) what Ubuntu
>>> does, so Plymouth and the Debian theme support fsck display since wheezy.
>>> The missing part is that init/fsck/whoever else actually sends
>>> information to plymouthd to display.
>>
>>
>> I actually think this is not the case. systemd, or rather fsckd *does*
>> send progress information (see the patch we ship in Debian for systemd
>> [1]) for plymouth. But it seems this information is not used on either
>> the plymouth or the theme side.
> 
> I just tried the following
> 
> a/ copied /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ from a Ubuntu yakkety
> installation into my Debian sid system
> b/ plymouth-set-default-theme ubuntu-logo
> c/ update-initramfs -u
> 
> Upon reboot, I get the Ubuntu plymouth splash screen and progress
> information seems to work nicely (I get the msg that fsck is running for
> 1 Disk and the percentage done). I can successfully cancel the fsck
> process with CTRL+C
> 
> So it looks like systemd and plymouth provide everything that's needed
> and it's a theme issue.

Indeed, I ensure we do have all bits needed in plymouth, and then, only
the themes can hook up as they need and treat the prepending "fsckd:"
message in a special way (took a look at what we do in the text and
ubuntu-logo theme, it should be straightforward)

Didier


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