Re: problem with package plymouth

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

On 02/09/12 08:22 PM, Arne de Boer wrote:
> earliest error:
> 
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-486
> df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory
> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169
> cp: cannot stat `/etc/fonts/fonts.conf': No such file or directory
> E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-486
> update-initramfs failed to create initrd image.
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-486 (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> configured to not write apport reports
>                                       Setting up libpng12-0 (1.2.44-1+squeeze4) ...
> Setting up libice6 (2:1.0.6-2) ...

OK, so this is http://bugs.debian.org/612401 which is fixed in unstable
but not in stable (and from what I can gather after reading the whole
bug is not considered release critical and therefore has no chance of
entering squeeze).

Ben