Just wanted to report a me-too on this bug, to give some indication that the problem does affect more than one installation. I got this on upgrade of desktop-base from 5.0.1 to 5.0.3: obelix:/etc# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up desktop-base (5.0.3) ... >Set theme as: moreblue-orbit [ FAIL ] dpkg: error processing desktop-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: desktop-base E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The immediate reason seems to be that I've got a /etc/splashy/themes directory without the moreblue-orbit theme: bjorn@obelix:~$ ls -l /etc/splashy/themes/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 crux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 debian3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 debian4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 debian-cubism drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 debian-moreblue drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 debiansplashy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:28 default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 kubuntusplashy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 10:42 ubuntusplashy I don't know how I ended up with this. The transition from /etc/splashy to /usr/share/splashy has obviously failed at some point: bjorn@obelix:~$ ls -l /etc/splashy total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 550 2008-10-09 11:02 config.xml drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-12-20 13:37 themes bjorn@obelix:~$ ls -l /usr/share/splashy/themes/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-01 13:18 default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-20 13:37 moreblue-orbit But I still think that the desktop-base.postinst script is too touchy abouth this. Is a failing splashy installation really important? Why not simply ignore it? There seems to be a number of installations where it otherwise will make desktop-base upgrades fail. I'm including a suggested patch.
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--- desktop-base.postinst.orig 2008-12-14 23:18:24.000000000 +0100
+++ desktop-base.postinst 2008-12-21 13:04:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
fi
if [ -x /sbin/splashy_config ] && [ -w /etc/splashy/config.xml ]; then
- splashy_config --set-theme moreblue-orbit
+ splashy_config --set-theme moreblue-orbit || true
fi
if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-initramfs ]; then
Bjorn