[ubuntu-uk] Trouble with a splash screen

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sat Feb 3 10:00:09 GMT 2007



Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, alan c wrote:
>> Tony Arnold wrote:
>>>> added edubuntu-desktop. When edubuntu had served its purpose I removed
>>>> edubuntu-desktop. [..] the (splash?) screen [..] still shows Edubuntu!
>>> update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so
>> Hey! great - success!  Thanks indeed.
> 
> This is still possibly a rather cosmetic bug;  the theme package could
> request an update on post-removal after the 'edubuntu' alternatives entry
> has been removed.
> 
> If you do the '--config' option now, which choices are still listed?

I think the problem is that which splash screen you get depends on the
links etc that are in the RAM FS used during boot, so until you do
upgrade-initramfs, the state of the alternatives on the running systems
file system is meaningless.

Regards,
Tony.
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