GLIB Warning stops Splash

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at canonical.com
Mon Nov 15 16:04:39 PST 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:06:35PM -0500, Ray Strode wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Patrick Kavajin <kpat.de at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Im recieving a warning(glib warning getpwuid_r failed due to unknown user
> > id) which stops the Splash screen, how to fix that?
> > where's the code located which stops the splashscreen when a warning is
> > dropped?

> Not sure. plymouth doesn't call getpwuid_r or use glib (or do you mean glibc?)

plymouth uses pango which uses glib.  If plymouth is started in an
initramfs, chances are there's no /etc/passwd (or any nss modules, for that
matter), resulting in this warning.

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