[Bug 1866447] Re: cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_xv1OBM/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png': No such file or directory

[Chris Guiver]

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

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1866377
   update-initramfs fails on plymouth hook due to missing target dir

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Title:
  cp: cannot create regular file
  '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_xv1OBM/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png':
  No such file or directory

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  | I: /boot/vmlinuz is now a symlink to vmlinuz-5.4.0-17-generic
  | I: /boot/initrd.img is now a symlink to initrd.img-5.4.0-17-generic
  | Setting up linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-17-generic (5.4.0-17.21) ...
  | Setting up linux-image-generic (5.4.0.17.20) ...
  | Setting up linux-generic (5.4.0.17.20) ...
  | Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu1) ...
  | update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-14-generic
  | cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_iUmuVn/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.
  | dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
  |  installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

  Had to edit /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth adding an 'mkdir
  -p' per attached patch.

  | plymouth:
  |   Installed: 0.9.4git20200109-0ubuntu6
  |   Candidate: 0.9.4git20200109-0ubuntu6
  |   Version table:
  |  *** 0.9.4git20200109-0ubuntu6 500
  |         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
  |         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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