[Bug 1866377] Re: update-initramfs fails on plymouth hook due to missing target dir

[Rik Mills]

In a flavour the plymouth-theme-spinner package is not installed, AND
even if it was, initramfs does not know to include that dir as the bgrt
theme is not selected as the default.plymouth alternative. Obviously the
cp command is run unconditionally, hence the error in a flavour.

I think.......

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Title:
  update-initramfs fails on plymouth hook due to missing target dir

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Testing pre-release Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 updated on Fri 6 Mar 2020

  lsb_release -d
  Description:	Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch)
  uname -a
  Linux beluga 5.4.0-14-generic #17-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 6 22:47:59 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-14-generic
  cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_npYdVL/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png': No such file or direct
  ory
  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.
  dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
   installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.30-0ubuntu3) ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   initramfs-tools

  [Same error on two different systems]

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