Wrong /var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration

[Gustaw Smolarczyk]

Binary package hint: plymouth

plymouth package's configure script (tested with `dpkg-reconfigure plymouth') generates wrong /var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration file. It consists of 10 lines formatted:
<number>:event<digit>

Digits are from 0 to 9, and number should be a floating point number from 0 to 1 indicating progress. But, for example, on first line this number is `0,132' instead of `0.132' (notice comma/period difference). It makes some themes (if not all) miswork.

Similar file, /var/lib/plymouth/shutdown-duration, is well-formed. After changing all commas to periods, themes work right.

[Gustaw Smolarczyk (wielkiegie)]

Anyone interested? I found that it's not connected to configure script but plymouth itself.

[Claudio Moretti (flyingstar16)]

My boot-duration file is correctly formatted, so I think this was fixed.

root@Jarvis:~# cat /var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration
0.517:fsck:/:100
0.517:fsck:/boot:100
0.619:7
0.621:14
0.646:22
0.659:29
0.663:36
0.670:44
0.674:51
0.675:58
0.676:66
0.763:67
0.767:69
0.771:70
0.779:72
0.816:74
0.819:75
0.865:77
0.867:79
0.940:80
0.942:82
0.945:84
0.946:85
0.954:87
0.958:89
0.967:90
0.987:92
0.995:94
0.996:95
0.996:97

[actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666)]

andy@D420:~$ file /var/lib/plymouth/shutdown-duration
/var/lib/plymouth/shutdown-duration: ERROR: cannot open `/var/lib/plymouth/shutdown-duration' (No such file or directory)

andy@D420:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

andy@D420:~$ uname -a
Linux D420 3.0.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 23 21:18:13 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Looks like a remnant of an upgrade. Mine is a clean install. As you can see above, I don't have the file

[Claudio Moretti (flyingstar16)]

I cannot confirm this; my /var/lib/plymouth/shutdown-duration is an empty file, but it's there...

claudio@Chuck:~$ file /var/lib/plymouth/shutdown-duration
/var/lib/plymouth/shutdown-duration: empty
claudio@Chuck:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
claudio@Chuck:~$ uname -a
Linux Chuck 3.0.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 23 21:23:39 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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