Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

[dibl]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

OK, 6:30 p.m. Eastern time I ran dist-upgrade. Wow -- 281 packages upgraded and 7 new packages installed -- a manly update, indeed!

So, after all that and 50 minutes later, and a reboot, everything came up semi-perfectly:

- splash as expected
- normal KDE 4 desktop with my folder view widget
- a Phonon error message that Pulseaudio doesn't work
- the KDE 4 greeting tune, played by Pulseaudio
- my Conky
- a crash message that Conky crashed (but it didn't)
- a crash message that kdeinit crashed (I see no evidence of it)
- Compiz starting according to my script
- my desktop as previously configured, with Conky, Compiz, working Pulseaudio, the clock telling the correct time, my 7 package launchers on the taskbar where I last put them

It's all good -- you just have to be skeptical about the crash messages. 8)

[russlar]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

OK, 6:30 p.m. Eastern time I ran dist-upgrade. Wow -- 281 packages upgraded and 7 new packages installed -- a manly update, indeed!

So, after all that and 50 minutes later, and a reboot, everything came up semi-perfectly:

- splash as expected
- normal KDE 4 desktop with my folder view widget
- a Phonon error message that Pulseaudio doesn't work
- the KDE 4 greeting tune, played by Pulseaudio
- my Conky
- a crash message that Conky crashed (but it didn't)
- a crash message that kdeinit crashed (I see no evidence of it)
- Compiz starting according to my script
- my desktop as previously configured, with Conky, Compiz, working Pulseaudio, the clock telling the correct time, my 7 package launchers on the taskbar where I last put them

It's all good -- you just have to be skeptical about the crash messages. 8)

Sounds like they crashed with exit code 0

[dibl]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Sounds like they crashed with exit code 0

Yes, that's the one!

[bobcollard]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Bubble bubble toil and trouble Fresh Karmic beta from the CD The day it came out, KDE 4.3.2 and all updates to the hour and Yuck! Baby Blue bubbles before my sunflower comes up. Not fixed here yet.
Bob

[Fintan]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

After todays update (in Switzerland) I got 170+ packages updates but no splash
and it stole the config bar (top bar) on system settings.
But that goes elsewhere.

[vinnywright]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

did the update-notifier-kde -d last night.

I have splash screen ......for about 1 second then login screen........gosh this thing boots and shutdown's fast......

system setings is fine IE: config bar is thare .........

VINNY

[Fintan]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Hmmm..:

sudo update-notifier-kde -d

fintan@fintanws2:~$ sudo update-notifier-kde -d
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-fintan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-fintan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
fintan@fintanws2:~$

[Snowhog]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Run it without sudo. The /var/tmp/kdecache-fintan is owned by you, not root.

[Fintan]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

I did:

sudo update-notifier-kde -d

[Snowhog]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Run:

update-notifier-kde -d

[NormanF]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Yep. It must have updated to 4.3.2 when it came out. I had to update Kubuntu Jaunty to 4.3.2 through the backports.

[Fintan]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Okay, sorry snowhog, it is very early in the morning

update-notifier-kde -d

No new updates.

No splash, no config bar in system settings.

[Guest]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

My Box boots so fast, Boot Splash has about 1.5 seconds before kdm starts..... so rather pointless on fast boxes...

[vinnywright]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Okay, sorry snowhog, it is very early in the morning

update-notifier-kde -d

No new updates.

No splash, no config bar in system settings.

ahum yes I just posted the update-notifier-kde -d saying that I had just done the update from jj to kk with it and I was not having this perticular prob.......sorey if it seamed as though I was sugesting that runing it had fixed the prob for me. as I never had the problem discribed hear from the time I first booted up my new koala....... :P

VINNY

[Kubuntiac]

Re: Calling all Karmic Users: Do you have a Boot Splash?

Just quizzed "The Riddler" on this on IRC, and I quoth:

<Riddell> the idea is that X starts so quickly you don't need a splash, a splash would just delay things more
<Riddell> whether this works in practice is unclear

and...

<Riddell> we really should have an FAQ about that

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