[arch-general] fbsplash fails to start after pacman -Syu

[Yaro Kasear]

On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 09:31:56 PM Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> Hi,
> After a recent system upgrade fbsplash fails to run during boot. However
> while shutting down i can see the splash. Its only during the start up
> that I can't see it.
> This is the /var/log/boot some days before the upgrade
> http://pastebin.com/EbdYYb32
> and this is the log after the upgrade http://pastebin.com/MkxLbRsT
> 
> Please notice the
> "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 780:
> /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory"
> and
> "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 795:
> /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory"
> and
> "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 796:
> /lib/splash/cache/steps_bootup: No such file or directory"
> errors that occur during boot(after upgrade). These didn't occur before.
> Also after booting i did ls in the /lib/splash/cache dir and found that
> the files are already there in the dir.
> Thanks.

When is the last time, as root, you ran mkinitcpio on your kernel?