Debian Plymouth Manager - Help needed

[cwwgateway]

I tested DPM on my laptop which is using bumblebee for hybrid graphics. The plymouth theme worked fine, but for some reason dpm got stuck with something to do with the intel driver, and I had to close dpm to get it to finish running update-grub, and the initramfs stuff.

You had to close DPM, but DPM finished none the less?

Yes. After closing DPM (clicking the "x"), in the terminal it ran update-grub and whatever the command is for updating initramfs.

[Schoelje]

Yes. After closing DPM (clicking the "x"), in the terminal it ran update-grub and whatever the command is for updating initramfs.

As if it was waiting for user input...

Could you check something for me?

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sudo apt-get install debconf-utils
sudo debconf-get-selections | grep intel > debconf-intel.seed

and post here whatever is written to debconf-intel.seed.

[jjaythomas]

using beta lmde-xfce

joy theme seem to lock if try in800-600 res (need force quit 'DPM' and retart others seem to not work at all or only certain listed resolutions (upstream problem?)

other themes seem to install but I must force-quit window and restart 'DPM' to use theme. Can't backtrack from install to theme mode (make sense )

J.Jay
P.S. solar, spacefun, mint-xfce(default) seem to always work.

[Schoelje]

P.S. solar, spacefun, mint-xfce(default) seem to always work.

Unfortunately, it's always trial and error with these themes. I think they were created a while ago and weren't thoroughly tested.

[jjaythomas]

Thin the grub mode looks a little bare

Could their be option to change grub background and the grub timeout. Their both a easy changes/edits of config 'grub' file?

J.Jay

[Schoelje]

Thin the grub mode looks a little bare

Could their be option to change grub background and the grub timeout. Their both a easy changes/edits of config 'grub' file?

J.Jay

Programmatically they are easy changes, but because I am the only developer at the moment working on DPM (or DDM for that matter) It doesn't have my highest priority. Let's say, it's on my wish-list. Just as improving DDM, a complete rework of live-installer, adapting Alacarte, re-designing LMDE KDE and LMDE Xfce, build a site that suits the OS's, find one or more SP's to host a repository and iso's, spend quality time with my family and friends, and so on, and so on.

[jjaythomas]

Programmatically they are easy changes, but because I am the only developer at the moment working on DPM (or DDM for that matter) It doesn't have my highest priority. Let's say, it's on my wish-list. Just as improving DDM, a complete rework of live-installer, adapting Alacarte, re-designing LMDE KDE and LMDE Xfce, build a site that suits the OS's, find one or more SP's to host a repository and iso's, spend quality time with my family and friends, and so on, and so on.

Totally understand...
Just like to thank you for everything
wish I could do more beside testing and pointing out obvious things but I not a programer (or IT anything) Im a factory working(semi retired) 'OLDFART,

J.Jay

[Schoelje]

semi-retired...sounds good
old fart...know the feeling

[jjaythomas]

semi-retired...sounds good
old fart...know the feeling

[dcihon]

Schoelje,
Trying to run dpm on this machine for the first time.
Not working attached is my log file.
The forum wouldn't let me attach a .log file so I had to rename it .doc
Thanks
Dan

[Schoelje]

Schoelje,
Trying to run dpm on this machine for the first time.
Not working attached is my log file.
The forum wouldn't let me attach a .log file so I had to rename it .doc
Thanks
Dan

In the log file you can see the following line:
Neither grub nor burg found in /etc/default

Can you verify there is a grub or burg file in /etc/default?
DPM needs grub or burg to configure Plymouth.

[dcihon]

Doesn't look like it.
How do I get it?

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dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ ls
acpid         bluetooth      cron        devpts         halt     intel-microcode      nss       pulseaudio    samba              useradd
alsa          bsdmainutils   cryptdisks  dirmngr        hddtemp  kdm.d                ntfs-3g   rcS           saned              winbind
alsa-base     cacerts        cups        exim4          hdparm   keyboard             numlockx  rcS.dpkg-old  speech-dispatcher
anacron       console-setup  dbus        google-chrome  htdig    locale               openvpn   rsync         tmpfs
avahi-daemon  crda           debsums     gpsd           hwclock  logitechmediaserver  portmap   rsyslog       ufw


[Schoelje]

Doesn't look like it.
How do I get it?

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dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ ls
acpid         bluetooth      cron        devpts         halt     intel-microcode      nss       pulseaudio    samba              useradd
alsa          bsdmainutils   cryptdisks  dirmngr        hddtemp  kdm.d                ntfs-3g   rcS           saned              winbind
alsa-base     cacerts        cups        exim4          hdparm   keyboard             numlockx  rcS.dpkg-old  speech-dispatcher
anacron       console-setup  dbus        google-chrome  htdig    locale               openvpn   rsync         tmpfs
avahi-daemon  crda           debsums     gpsd           hwclock  logitechmediaserver  portmap   rsyslog       ufw


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sudo apt-get install grub

This should create an initial /etc/default/grub file

[dcihon]

I did this but I don't understand and it doesn't look like it did what you wanted it to do:

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dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get install grub
[sudo] password for dcihon:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'grub-legacy' instead of 'grub'
Suggested packages:
  grub-legacy-doc multiboot mdadm
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub-legacy
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 925 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,874 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main grub-legacy amd64 0.97-66.1 [925 kB]
Fetched 925 kB in 1s (694 kB/s)     
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously unselected package grub-legacy.
(Reading database ... 309626 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub-legacy (from .../grub-legacy_0.97-66.1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up grub-legacy (0.97-66.1) ...
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ ls
acpid         bluetooth      cron        devpts         halt     intel-microcode      nss       pulseaudio    samba              useradd
alsa          bsdmainutils   cryptdisks  dirmngr        hddtemp  kdm.d                ntfs-3g   rcS           saned              winbind
alsa-base     cacerts        cups        exim4          hdparm   keyboard             numlockx  rcS.dpkg-old  speech-dispatcher
anacron       console-setup  dbus        google-chrome  htdig    locale               openvpn   rsync         tmpfs
avahi-daemon  crda           debsums     gpsd           hwclock  logitechmediaserver  portmap   rsyslog       ufw


[Schoelje]

I don't understand why it's installing grub-legacy instead of grub2.
I see that you're running liquorix.
DPM has only been tested with Linux Mint and Ubuntu and all with standard settings.

What are you running?

[dcihon]

System: Host: dcihon-linux-mint-debian Kernel: 3.6.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: KDE 4.8.4 Distro: LinuxMint 1 debian

[Schoelje]

System: Host: dcihon-linux-mint-debian Kernel: 3.6.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: KDE 4.8.4 Distro: LinuxMint 1 debian

LinuxMint 1 debian should already have grub installed (with /etc/default/grub).

Could you return the output of:

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apt search grub | grep ^i

[dcihon]

dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ apt search grub | grep ^i
i grub-common - GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
i grub-legacy - GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
i grub-pc-bin - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BI
i grub2-theme-mint - Grub2 theme for Linux Mint

[Schoelje]

Mine looks like this:

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apt search grub | grep ^i
i   grub                            - GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy package) 
i   grub-common                     - GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)   
i   grub-pc                         - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BI
i   grub-pc-bin                     - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BI
i   grub2-common                    - GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for
iB  grub2-theme-lmdekde             - Grub2 theme for LMDE KDE 

Try this:

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sudo apt-get purge grub-legacy
sudo apt-get install grub2-common

and to be sure:

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sudo grub-update

Now, check if /etc/default/grub exists

[dcihon]

Looks like I may have things not installed correctly:
I've included everything I did:

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dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get purge grub-legacy
[sudo] password for dcihon:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  grub-legacy*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,874 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 309673 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub-legacy ...
Purging configuration files for grub-legacy ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get install grub2-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 grub2-common : Depends: grub-common (= 1.99-26)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get install ^C
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get install grub2-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 grub2-common : Depends: grub-common (= 1.99-26)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get install grub-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
grub-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get purge grub-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  grub-common* grub-pc-bin*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 8,180 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get purge grub2-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'grub2-common' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get purge grub-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  grub-common* grub-pc-bin*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 8,180 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 309625 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub-pc-bin ...
Removing grub-common ...
Purging configuration files for grub-common ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get install grub2-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  grub-common
Suggested packages:
  multiboot-doc grub-emu xorriso
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub-common grub2-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,648 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,632 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main grub-common amd64 1.99-26 [1,553 kB]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main grub2-common amd64 1.99-26 [94.3 kB]
Fetched 1,648 kB in 2s (691 kB/s)     
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of grub-common (-> 1.99-26) <marked as done in some version>
 #686351 - /usr/sbin/grub-probe: grub-probe : erreur :  no such disk. (Fixed: os-prober/1.57 grub2/2.00-7)
   Merged with: 673573 680084
Summary:
 grub-common(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] y
Selecting previously unselected package grub-common.
(Reading database ... 309330 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub-common (from .../grub-common_1.99-26_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package grub2-common.
Unpacking grub2-common (from .../grub2-common_1.99-26_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Setting up grub-common (1.99-26) ...
Setting up grub2-common (1.99-26) ...
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo grub-update
sudo: grub-update: command not found
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:/etc/default$ sudo apt-get install grub-update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package grub-update