[Bug 930865] [NEW] Please don't disable graphical plugins for any alternate init=

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Public bug reported:

>From the plymouth changelog:
plymouth (0.8.1-1) lucid; urgency=low
  * Restored code to disable Plymouth's graphical plugins when an alternate
    init= is given on the kernel command-line, otherwise init=/bin/bash
    doesn't work so well when Plymouth is in the initramfs.

What I want to do is to put "init=/sbin/ltsp-init", which prepares a
netbooted cow file system for live booting, and then exec's /sbin/init
to continue with the boot process.

Could you please restrict the graphical plugin disabling code to "init=/bin/bash", or at least to "init=/bin/*" ?
Or even if you just allowed "init=/sbin/init*", we could name ours "/sbin/init-ltsp".

I know I can use "plymouth:force-splash" in the kernel command line to
force loading the graphical plugins, but it's getting a bit complicated
for the end users.

** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Please don't disable graphical plugins for any alternate init=

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  From the plymouth changelog:
  plymouth (0.8.1-1) lucid; urgency=low
    * Restored code to disable Plymouth's graphical plugins when an alternate
      init= is given on the kernel command-line, otherwise init=/bin/bash
      doesn't work so well when Plymouth is in the initramfs.

  What I want to do is to put "init=/sbin/ltsp-init", which prepares a
  netbooted cow file system for live booting, and then exec's /sbin/init
  to continue with the boot process.

  Could you please restrict the graphical plugin disabling code to "init=/bin/bash", or at least to "init=/bin/*" ?
  Or even if you just allowed "init=/sbin/init*", we could name ours "/sbin/init-ltsp".

  I know I can use "plymouth:force-splash" in the kernel command line to
  force loading the graphical plugins, but it's getting a bit
  complicated for the end users.

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