Bug#421592: bootplash script has error

[Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>]

Hi all,

|--==> maximilian attems writes:

  ma> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:54:53AM -0600, Chris Dos wrote:
  >>Package: initramfs-tools
  >>Version: 0.87b

  ma> inappropriate package?
 
  >>Running:
  >>update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.21
  >>
  >>Results in:
  >>update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.21
  >>/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/bootsplash: line 51: splash: command not found

  ma> i have zero idea who ships that hook, it is certainly not
  ma> initramfs-tools, zero output:
  ma> dpkg -L initramfs-tools | grep bootsplash


  ma> please send the output of:
  ma> dpkg -S bootsplash
 
  >>editing:
  >>/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/bootsplash
  >>
  >>Changing line 51 from this:
  >>splash -s -f $SPLASH_FILE > $DESTDIR/bootsplash
  >>
  >>to this:
  >>$SPLASH_BIN -s -f $SPLASH_FILE > $DESTDIR/bootsplash
  >>
  >>Fixes the problem.
  >>

  ma> best regards

This is a know bug (#420002) of the bootsplash package, it should be
fixed in unstable.

Ciao,

Free