Feb 202012
If you run fix-splash on a backtrack installation and get:
$ 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 BootSplashThe fix is really simple…..
sudo vi `which fix-splash`
and scroll to line 16 which has:
find ./ | cpio -H newc -o > initrdand change that line to:
find ./ ! -name initrd | cpio -H newc -o > initrdSave 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)