splashy crashed when I run "splashy test"

[FrancesKo]

Binary package hint: splashy

I installed this packages:
splashy
splashy-themes

when I run "splashy test" (in a console) this is the output:
Splashy ERROR: Couldn't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -2

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu May 10 16:53:30 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /sbin/splashy
Package: splashy 0.3.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: splashy test
ProcCwd: /home/csv
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
ProcMaps:
 08048000-08210000 r-xp 00000000 03:07 98316 /sbin/splashy
 08210000-08216000 rw-p 001c7000 03:07 98316 /sbin/splashy
 08216000-0823d000 rw-p 08216000 00:00 0 [heap]
 bfcd3000-bfce9000 rw-p bfcd3000 00:00 0 [stack]
 ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: splashy
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x080b8a7a in ?? ()
 #1 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:
 .
 Thread 1 (process 8274):
 #0 0x080b8a7a in ?? ()
 #1 0x00000000 in ?? ()
Uname: Linux kubuntu 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:splashy_stop_splash () at splashy_video.c:1267
cmd_exit (args=0x0) at splashy_functions.c:326
splashy_child_exit () at splashy_functions.c:1265
main (argc=) at splashy_main.c:137
__libc_start_main ()

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

I get the same error when trying to test Splashy from the terminal
Splashy ERROR: Couldn't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -2
Feisty Fawn 7.04

[xile (xile-email)]

Same bug using Ubuntu 8.04 beta. Tried with vga=..., added framebuffer support, using png files (I heard that jpg files are not supported?). Anyway it just doesn't work and there seems to be no bugfix yet!

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

Actually I was able to get splashy working by activating the framebuffer.
You need to add "vesafb" and "fbcon" (without the quotes) to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
and un-blacklist vesafb from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
Update the initramfs
"sudo update-initramfs -u"
and add the vga=xxx line to the boot parameters.

Is there a reason there is no framebuffer by default?

[Yang.Liu (cnkanglong)]

I also this problom.