relinux

plymouth crashes at boot time on relinux-ed iso

Asked by michael s

Im relinux-ed a ubuntu system and the only problem I could net yet solve is, that
If I installed a plymouth boot splash the boot process crashes on the live cd.

Why is that?

The boot log says:
chroot: can't execute 'mktemp': No such file or directory
chroot: can't execute 'debdonf-communicate': No such file or directory
chroot: can't execute '/usr/sbin/make-ssl-cert': No such file or directory
chroot: can't execute 'dpkg-divert': No such file or directory
ln: /root/usr/sbin/anacron: File exists
chroot: can't execute 'dpkg-divert': No such file or directory
chroot: can't execute 'dpkg-divert': No such file or directory
chroot: can't execute 'dpkg-divert': No such file or directory
chroot: can't execute 'dpkg-divert': No such file or directory
run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory
Kernel panic
tainted 3.0.0-12-generic

Usually those file do exist. I don't see a connection.

Steps before crash:
update-alternatives --config default.plymouth <--[theme]
sudo update-initramfs -u

Im testing on a virtualbox, so the hardware is arbitrary.

Thanks for help.

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Anonymous Meerkat (lkjoel) said : 		#1

chroot?? What did you change apart from the plymouth theme?

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michael s (msjean) said : 		#2

I'm not aware of any change apart from that.
The theme I tried to set up, has been created and installed with super-boot-manager.
Even setting a standard theme lead to this failure.
So it seems the major problem is caused by "sudo update-initramfs -u", not by plymouth itself.
As long as I don't touch the kernel with update-initramfs, the produced live cd works just fine, but only with a simple ubuntu boot splash sequence.
I tried "sudo update-grub2" afterwards, but that did not help.
I also tried (inside relinux script) cp /lib/plymouth $WORKDIR/dummysys/lib/ (maybe thats not all that needs to be copied).

I looked up what the tainted kernel means and found proc/sys/kernel/taint which says 1024.
But it was 1024 and 3.0.0-12-generic even before running update-initramfs.

The super-boot-manager advised, there might be a problem with booting unless the a provided fix is installed too.
That also did not work, and would have affected the host system too, which runs quite normally with arbitrary plymouth themes.

As a "work around": I would be happy if I just could replace the background color and ubuntu logo with own grafics, but I guess that always needs updating initramfs , does it?

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Anonymous Meerkat (lkjoel) said : 		#3

That is weird. You shouldn't need to run update-initramfs, as relinux automatically generates one. What about trying this:
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

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