[Bug 1592405] Re: plymouth hook in initramfs needs font but doesn't Depend on it

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 10:20:22PM -0000, Jb wrote:
> fonts-dejavu is still a "recommended" but not installed package.

Making it a dependency is NOT the correct solution for this bug.  The
correct solution is to fix the initramfs script to use the Ubuntu fonts
instead, which is what we had prior to the Debian merge.

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Title:
  plymouth hook in initramfs needs font but doesn't Depend on it

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.1) ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1412-omap4
  cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf': No such file or directory
  E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1412-omap4 with 1.
  dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   initramfs-tools

  
  cmiller at xiongmao:~$ dpkg -S /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth
  plymouth: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth
  cmiller at xiongmao:~$ dpkg -l plymouth |cat
  ii  plymouth       0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1 armhf        boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer

  
  If THEME_NAME "ubuntu-logo" is something other than the four, then
  if /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf does not exist, then
  copy /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf somewhere.

  That file doesn't exist because it's not demanded by plymouth package.

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