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Re: bootsplash



On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 02:01:35AM +0100, Martin Lohmeier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> have anyone bootsplash working on his ppc? I got the source from
> bootsplash.de, compiled it with no problem but dpkg can't install it.
> 
> 
> dpkg: error processing bootsplash (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
> 
> Anyone out there who got it working?

I did that too some days ago. Well, it is a kind of curious behaviour
from dpkg when you do 'dpkg -i' on the bootsplash package.

I activated debugging of dpkg with -D7777, but no errors were actually
displayed.

By further tests, I saw the installation seems
to hang in the debian/postinst script at this line :
'. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule'.  Maybe this is debconf related,
who knows...

By testing the installation of the package on i386 and alpha with
'dpkg -i', the error occurs too.

Hence, what I did was creating a Debian repository for bootsplash
powerpc packages with dpkg-scanpackages, putting it on my local mirror,
and then with dselect, it worked fine.

However, I warn you, despite all my efforts, bootsplash did not work
at all with radeonfb. :(

Well, I have not look into the source code, since I want to spare my
time on a more useful project. ;)

Cheers.
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