Plymouth command failed

Skaperen · 03-15-2011, 09:59 AM

I get this (spaced as shown) when I boot up:

Code:

mountall: Plymouth command failed
                                 mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth

Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS maxwell tty1

maxwell login:

This is a server, and Ubuntu server is installed. So it would seem to me that the "plymouth" package (graphical boot animation) should not even be used. Yet something (mountall) is trying to use it.

andrewthomas · 03-15-2011, 10:32 AM

Plymouth is a dependency of mountall which is a dependency of upstart.

So upstart pulls in plymouth.

However, this seems like a harmless error, no?

Skaperen · 03-15-2011, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

Plymouth is a dependency of mountall which is a dependency of upstart.

So upstart pulls in plymouth.

However, this seems like a harmless error, no?

Agreed, it is harmless ... once I researched what it was. But it's still something behaving wrong. Plymouth should not be a hard dependency. It should be possible to just leave it out. Then mountall, and anything else using it, should either try to use it in a silent way (like how rm behaves for a file that does not exist), or test for it and skip it if not present. Maybe it should funnel through a separate "boot status" package of some sort, which then spreads the states out to packages like plymouth or any others (maybe I want the boot status to be spewed out of a serial port and so I write a package or program to handle that), based on what exists or is registered or configured to be used.

andrewthomas · 03-15-2011, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skaperen

Plymouth should not be a hard dependency. It should be possible to just leave it out.

All you really need is libplymouth2 and libplymouth-dev to rebuild it

Code:

Package requirements (ply-boot-client >= 0.8.0) were not met:

No package 'ply-boot-client' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PLYMOUTH_CFLAGS
and PLYMOUTH_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.