Anything goes - Bootsplash has hit unstable jackiebrown - 24.06.2006, 04:23 Uhr Titel: Bootsplash has hit unstable
As the title says bootsplash has entered unstable. First time I have installed it for in a long time without any troubles
lendusaquid - 24.06.2006, 17:36 Uhr Titel:
How do i get it to work ?
jackiebrown - 24.06.2006, 22:44 Uhr Titel:
could have swore I responded to this.
add vga=791 splash=silent to your boot options in your grub menu.lst
SaberBlaze - 25.06.2006, 01:50 Uhr Titel:
Does this mean that we can use that cool bootsplash from the 2005-04 livecd? (the one with the walking penguins)?
mzilikazi - 25.06.2006, 04:05 Uhr Titel:
Watch out for this bootsplash business. If you have previously tried to install bootsplash debs from bootsplash.de you may get to experience some dpkg fun. The bootsplash pkgs from bootsplash.de were broken and create some issue that cause a problem everytime you try to install bootsplash after that. Bootsplash will refuse to be installed or removed and apt-get -f install will not fix this one. I do not know what causes this error exactly but I do know how to fix it.
Code:
mcedit /var/lib/dpkg/info/bootsplash.prerm
Now after this part of the file:
Code:
set -e
Add this:
Code:
exit 0
Save the file then:
Code:
dpkg -P bootsplash
If anyone knows what it is that creates this PITA please post! jackiebrown - 25.06.2006, 05:10 Uhr Titel:
mzilikazi, I remember. That's what I meant when I said "First time I have installed it for in a long time without any troubles"
You and remember the horrid experiences with that.
The one in unstable installs flawlessly though. lendusaquid - 25.06.2006, 11:41 Uhr Titel:
bootsplash:
Depends: initramfs-tools but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: sysv-rc-bootsplash but it is not installable
its not happening for me mzilikazi - 25.06.2006, 13:47 Uhr Titel:
jackiebrown hat folgendes geschrieben::
The one in unstable installs flawlessly though.
Hi jackiebrown. I wonder though......are you still on the same Kanotix install or have you since reinstalled? All of my installs have been on for quite some time. ( > 1 year). I only tried the bootsplash on one box but the problem persists. I'd love to figure out what those bootsplash.de pkgs did to my box to make bootsplash such a PITA. Unfortunately I have no idea and bootsplash just doesn't warrant enough of my time to figure it out.
mzilikazi - 25.06.2006, 13:49 Uhr Titel:
lendusaquid hat folgendes geschrieben::
bootsplash:
Depends: initramfs-tools but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: sysv-rc-bootsplash but it is not installable
its not happening for me
Well initramfs-tools is in the Debian unstable repo so there should be no problems there. Try specifying it on the cli:
Code:
apt-get install bootsplash initramfs-tools
Sometimes apt just needs a kick in the right direction. lendusaquid - 25.06.2006, 16:25 Uhr Titel:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
initramfs-tools: Depends: busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) but it is not going to be installed or
busybox-cvs-static (>= 20040623-1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
root@KanotixBox:~#
Worth a try but ill give up for now. I will try again some other time.
Thanks for your help thou peeps.
mzilikazi - 25.06.2006, 19:00 Uhr Titel:
lendusaquid hat folgendes geschrieben::
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
initramfs-tools: Depends: busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) but it is not going to be installed or
busybox-cvs-static (>= 20040623-1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
root@KanotixBox:~#
Worth a try but ill give up for now. I will try again some other time.
Thanks for your help thou peeps.
Well busybox is also in standard debian repos. I think your sources.list needs a repo added.
SaberBlaze - 25.06.2006, 23:21 Uhr Titel:
Has anyone tried using that install-bootsplash-acritox.sh script? It's supposed to do things for you I believe.
lendusaquid - 26.06.2006, 16:47 Uhr Titel:
apt-get install busybox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
busybox-kanotix kanotix-terminalserver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
busybox
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 288kB of archives.
After unpacking 594kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? No i dont!!
I used the install-bootsplash-acritox.sh script a month or so ago and all was fine then.
