[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#675331: initscripts: checkroot.sh and checkfs.sh: notifying the user about the check if plymouth is running may be useful

[Ivan Krylov]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-22.1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
Filesystem check can take a long time, and if there is plymouth running, the user
can be easily confused by silent splash screen (for example, one may think that
the computer is hang).

My suggestion is to add the check for running plymouth and something like this:
/bin/plymouth message --text="Filesystem check is running, this can take some time..."
to checkroot.sh and checkfs.sh.

Or should this question be related to lsb-base (and /lib/lsb/init-functions), not to initscripts?

Best regards,
Krylov Ivan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3.2
ii  debianutils     4.3
ii  libc6           2.13-32
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian3
ii  mount           2.20.1-4
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-22.1
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-22.1
ii  ucf             3.0025+nmu3

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.2-2
ii  psmisc     22.16-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

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