package initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu0.7 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Nobuto Murata]

happened during upgrade from raring to saucy.

after upgrade I did:
$ LANG=C sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu0.7) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-23-generic
cp: cannot stat '/module-files.d/libpango1.0-0.modules': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/modules/pango-basic-fc.so': No such file or directory
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-23-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools

ProblemType: PackageDistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: initramfs-tools
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 8 22:10:24 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:initramfs-tools:0.103ubuntu0.7:ErrorMessage: サブプロセス インストール済みの post-installation スクリプト はエラー終了ステータス 1 を返しました
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: サブプロセス インストール済みの post-installation スクリプト はエラー終了ステータス 1 を返しました
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-21 (47 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130420)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu0.7 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: サブプロセス インストール済みの post-installation スクリプト はエラー終了ステータス 1 を返しました
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-08 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Timo Witte (spacefish)]

maybe the same problem as this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10723612 ?!

[Robie Basak (racb)]

I can see that a change that affects this issue was made in 0.8.8-0ubuntu7 - presumably this is where this bug was fixed?

I hit this with an upgrade from Raring to Saucy just now. The upgrade is still in progress; plymouth is still on 0.8.8-0ubuntu6.1 and hasn't been upgraded yet.

The bug caused a popup window telling me that the initramfs-tools postinst failed.

Given that this affects the upgrader UX, would it be an idea to SRU this to affected releases? Otherwise people upgrading from Raring to Saucy will hit this if plymouth isn't upgraded early enough in the process.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Oops; I meant to post that in duplicate bug 1185300. I'll mark the duplicate and post that comment there instead.