[Bug 1866372] Re: Plymouth causes update-initramfs to fail

[Cruz Fernandez]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1866377 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1866377

A better workaround is to install plymouth-theme-spinner (it fixed the
OEM missing logo on Ubuntu 20.04 for my machine Dell XPS 9550)

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Title:
  Plymouth causes update-initramfs to fail

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 and plymouth 0.9.4git20200109-0ubuntu6.
  Whenever I run "update-initramfs -uk all", it fails and produces this
  output:

  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-14-generic
  cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_0bZgET/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png': No such file or directory
  E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-14-generic with 1.

  I found a workaround: if I edit /usr/share/initramfs-
  tools/hooks/plymouth and find this line:

                  cp /usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-logo.png
  "${DESTDIR}/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png"

  And add this line right before it:

                  mkdir -p
  "${DESTDIR}/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner"

  Then it runs successfully.

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