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If you run fix-splash on a backtrack installation and get:

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$ sudo fix-splash
[*] Fixing Initrd
[*] Extracting Initrd
181100 blocks
cpio: File ./initrd grew, 46361600 new bytes not copied
181100 blocks
[*] Reboot and bask in the joys of BootSplash

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The fix is really simple…..

sudo vi `which fix-splash`

and scroll to line 16 which has:

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find ./ | cpio -H newc -o > initrd

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and change that line to:

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find ./ ! -name initrd | cpio -H newc -o > initrd

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Save the file and run it again….poof….fixed.

The reason for the error was simple, we were creating a file in the directory we told the script to search….so it started at 0 bytes and increased in size during the search (find command)