Fbsplash not working - initscripts-issue?

Question

Hey guys,
lately i tried to get some more eye-candy by installing fbsplash from AUR.
I did everything the way it is explained in the wiki-article (at least i think i did).
what i didn't do (cause it wasn't mentioned), is to install/build a new/patched kernel. is this needed?
well, the problem i encounter is, that when i boot my machine, i get lot's of errors like "basename: command not found", which originate mostly from a script called splash-functions.sh or somehow. but: if i open a console windows and type in the command basename is found and working. thus, i expect that the problem might be the initscripts-package? but i installed it and also rebuild the initramdisk. it even lists fbsplash as a hook while rebuildung.
it would like to give you the complete output of error-messages, but i don't know where to find them? i searched the whole /var/log-directory, but even in the everything.log-logfile i couldn't find any of the messages. maybe something with syslog-ng is also wrong?
all the same, i try to give you some information which might be usefull for investigating my problem, so here they go:
/etc/rc.conf - DAEMONS
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng acpid portmap cpufreq fam hal network alsa netfs crond sensors networkmanager fbsplash gdm tor)
/etc/mkinitpcio.conf - HOOKS
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata fbsplash filesystems"
maybe to mention: i'm using an IDE-only system (older laptop when sata wasn't out yet, but i think the new ATA-driver has went into the SATA-tree or something like that...)
that's the command i used to rebuild the initrd:
[...#] mkinitcpio -p kernel26
and that's a part of /var/log/syslog.log:
Jul 17 21:48:21 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4517]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 17 21:48:21 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4517]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 21:55:00 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4519]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 21:58:51 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4519]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 17 21:58:51 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4519]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 22:00:22 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4520]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 22:15:46 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4520]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 17 22:15:46 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4520]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 22:17:20 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4521]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 22:46:23 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4521]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 17 22:46:23 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4521]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 22:48:11 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4520]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 23:03:41 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4520]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 17 23:03:41 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4520]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 23:05:14 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4479]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 17 23:36:49 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4479]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 17 23:36:49 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4479]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 14:07:41 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4338]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 14:10:24 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4338]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 18 14:10:24 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4338]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 14:12:48 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4306]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 14:46:18 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4306]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 18 14:46:18 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4306]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 14:47:05 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4481]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 14:53:55 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4481]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 18 14:53:55 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4481]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 15:17:40 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4480]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 15:32:17 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4480]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jul 18 15:32:17 leiferiksson syslog-ng[4480]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Jul 18 15:32:19 leiferiksson syslog-ng[5701]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
i don't really know why it's always starting and shutting down...at least it always seems to be running in the end.
Last edited by treysis (2009-07-18 14:07:59)

Answer 1

i only have /var/log/messages.log and there's nothing in there (well, there is of course something but no error-messages).
i think i'll have to fix the syslog-ng problem first? any idea how? i don't even know what to search for...
here's my /etc/syslog-ng.conf
@version: 3.0
# /etc/syslog-ng.conf
options {
stats_freq (0);
flush_lines (0);
time_reopen (10);
log_fifo_size (1000);
long_hostnames(off);
use_dns (no);
use_fqdn (no);
create_dirs (no);
keep_hostname (yes);
perm(0640);
group("log");
source src {
unix-stream("/dev/log");
internal();
file("/proc/kmsg");
destination d_authlog { file("/var/log/auth.log"); };
destination d_syslog { file("/var/log/syslog.log"); };
destination d_cron { file("/var/log/crond.log"); };
destination d_daemon { file("/var/log/daemon.log"); };
destination d_kernel { file("/var/log/kernel.log"); };
destination d_lpr { file("/var/log/lpr.log"); };
destination d_user { file("/var/log/user.log"); };
destination d_uucp { file("/var/log/uucp.log"); };
destination d_mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); };
destination d_news { file("/var/log/news.log"); };
destination d_ppp { file("/var/log/ppp.log"); };
destination d_debug { file("/var/log/debug.log"); };
destination d_messages { file("/var/log/messages.log"); };
destination d_errors { file("/var/log/errors.log"); };
destination d_everything { file("/var/log/everything.log"); };
destination d_iptables { file("/var/log/iptables.log"); };
destination d_acpid { file("/var/log/acpid.log"); };
destination d_console { usertty("root"); };
# Log everything to vc12
destination console_all { file("/dev/vc/12"); };
filter f_auth { facility(auth); };
filter f_authpriv { facility(auth, authpriv); };
filter f_syslog { program(syslog-ng); };
filter f_cron { facility(cron); };
filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); };
filter f_kernel { facility(kern) and not filter(f_iptables); };
filter f_lpr { facility(lpr); };
filter f_mail { facility(mail); };
filter f_news { facility(news); };
filter f_user { facility(user); };
filter f_uucp { facility(cron); };
filter f_news { facility(news); };
filter f_ppp { facility(local2); };
filter f_debug { not facility(auth, authpriv, news, mail); };
filter f_messages { level(info..warn) and not facility(auth, authpriv, mail, news, cron) and not program(syslog-ng) and not filter(f_iptables); };
filter f_everything { level(debug..emerg) and not facility(auth, authpriv); };
filter f_emergency { level(emerg); };
filter f_info { level(info); };
filter f_notice { level(notice); };
filter f_warn { level(warn); };
filter f_crit { level(crit); };
filter f_err { level(err); };
filter f_iptables { match("IN=" value("MESSAGE")) and match("OUT=" value("MESSAGE")); };
filter f_acpid { program("acpid"); };
log { source(src); filter(f_acpid); destination(d_acpid); };
log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); destination(d_authlog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(d_syslog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(d_cron); };
log { source(src); filter(f_daemon); destination(d_daemon); };
log { source(src); filter(f_kernel); destination(d_kernel); };
log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); destination(d_lpr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(d_mail); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); destination(d_news); };
log { source(src); filter(f_ppp); destination(d_ppp); };
log { source(src); filter(f_user); destination(d_user); };
log { source(src); filter(f_uucp); destination(d_uucp); };
#log { source(src); filter(f_debug); destination(d_debug); };
log { source(src); filter(f_messages); destination(d_messages); };
log { source(src); filter(f_err); destination(d_errors); };
log { source(src); filter(f_emergency); destination(d_console); };
log { source(src); filter(f_everything); destination(d_everything); };
log { source(src); filter(f_iptables); destination(d_iptables); };
# Log everything to vc12
#log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
Last edited by treysis (2009-07-18 21:50:19)