yaru-theme-gnome-shell fails to install ["/usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell/calendar-today-light.svg.dpkg-new": No such file or directory]

[Daniele Besana (WP-OK)]

The upgrade from Ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04 - Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (development branch) - stopped.
An "apt install -f" shows that a file is missing in the Yaru package:

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root@besa:/home/daniele/Downloads# apt install -f
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze... Fatto
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
Correzione delle dipendenze... Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti aggiuntivi saranno inoltre installati:
  yaru-theme-gnome-shell
I seguenti pacchetti saranno aggiornati:
  yaru-theme-gnome-shell
1 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
4 non completamente installati o rimossi.
È necessario scaricare 0 B/85,4 kB di archivi.
Dopo quest'operazione, verranno occupati 14,9 MB di spazio su disco.
Continuare? [Y/n]
(Lettura del database... 392424 file e directory attualmente installati.)
Preparativi per estrarre .../yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb...
Estrazione di yaru-theme-gnome-shell (22.04.3.1) su (21.10.2)...
dpkg: errore nell'elaborare l'archivio /var/cache/apt/archives/yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 impossibile aprire "/usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell/calendar-today-light.svg.dpkg-new": No such file or directory
Segnalazione apport non scritta poiché il messaggio di errore indica un errore nel sistema locale.
                                                                                                  Si sono verificati degli errori nell'elaborazione:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb
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The error line is:
"/usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell/calendar-today-light.svg.dpkg-new": No such file or directory

I unpacked the deb file and indeed there's no calendar-today-light.svg.dpkg-new file, the right name is calendar-today-light.svg

It looks like a bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniele Besana (WP-OK) (daniele-wpok)]

Is there a workaround to this bug? I ended up with a system half-configured and apt doesn't complete anything because of the dependency.

[Anders Kringstad (akai)]

Just to confirm a few things;

Downloaded the .deb source file and checked. It contains the .svg-file in two locations:

root@instant:/usr/src/yaru-theme-22.04.3.1# find ./ -iname "calendar-today-light.svg*"
./gnome-shell/src/calendar-today-light.svg
./gnome-shell/upstream/theme/calendar-today-light.svg

After doing a local rebuild, strangely enough, the file is listed when doing a file listing of the .deb:

root@instant:/usr/src# dpkg --contents yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb |grep Yaru/gnome-shell/calendar-today-light.svg
-rw-r--r-- root/root 197 2022-03-28 23:58 ./usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell/calendar-today-light.svg

The installation however still gives the same error as reported:

root@instant:/usr/src# dpkg -i yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 378365 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking yaru-theme-gnome-shell (22.04.3.1) over (20.04.11.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb (--install):
 unable to open '/usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell/calendar-today-light.svg.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1_all.deb

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That error seems to suggest the installation process has failed ("dpkg-new"), not that the file is missing from the package.

Please check you have lots of free space:

  df -h /usr

and maybe also check the filesystem for errors.

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

I can confirm this bug, and it is not a space issue.
The problem is that is a symbolic link that messes with dpkg unpacking:
ls -lha /usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Feb 6 2020 /usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell -> ../../gnome-shell/theme/Yaru

This currently prevents updates to Jammy (unless you delete the symlink first).

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Wondering how that file was a symlink... Latest impish version of yaru-theme (21.10.2) contains such directory, that is not a symlink.

Someone here installed yaru theme from sources?

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

As simple test, would the attached .deb work?

[Codica (codica)]

Installing with
  sudo dpkg -i yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1+git2ff06a41_all.deb
worked.

Previously, upgrading from 21.10 to 22.04 had been interrupted by the bug in yaru-theme-gnome-shell. After installing the new .deb, I could install ubuntu-session and ubuntu-desktop.

Thank you very much!

[Daniele Besana (WP-OK) (daniele-wpok)]

Hi Marco,
Same here, install worked:

# dpkg -i yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1+git2ff06a41_all.deb
(Lettura del database... 358070 file e directory attualmente installati.)
Preparativi per estrarre yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.3.1+git2ff06a41_all.deb...
Estrazione di yaru-theme-gnome-shell (22.04.3.1+git2ff06a41) su (22.04.3.1)...
Configurazione di yaru-theme-gnome-shell (22.04.3.1+git2ff06a41)...

[Paolo (ilpolpi65)]

It worked for me too.

Thanks very much Marco!

[Anders Kringstad (akai)]

Can confirm that this indeed worked :-)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package yaru-theme - 22.04.4

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yaru-theme (22.04.4) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * icons: Ensure symlinks are installed as such for all variants
  * icons: Avoid adding symlink to parent dark variants if not enabled
  * icons: Cleanup meson file, re-organizing logic
  * CI: Add CI job that builds debian packages and builds them
  * build-ci: Compile both default and full options
  * gtk/index.theme: Follow the standard on index definition.
    There's not a real standard definition but the latest one is still
    defined at https://wiki.xfce.org/gnome-theme-package
  * gtk: Include some X-Yaru parameters on index.theme
  * accent-colors: Also override $accent_color variable.
    It's used by libadwaita for now, but could be used more, so let's define
    it too.
  * gtk: Include accent color code in the index.theme.
    It could be used to do easily figure out the color code so that we avoid
    hard-coding it in places such as g-c-c
  * meson: Only build default variant of accent colors if default is enabled
  * CI: Also include mate-dark variant when rendering icons.
    We don't want to avoid symlinks from being generated
  * generate-symlinks: Ensure that we don't overwrite already generated symlinks
    It means we're doing something wrong in our lists, so let's avoid it
  * generate-symlinks: Fix handling of some arguments
  * icons: Ensure we don't overwrite already created symlinks
  * panel: Avoid using symlinks of symlinks as source.
    This is causing errors as it depends on the symlinks .list files and we
    don't want so.
  * icons: Ensure symlinks are not pointing to other symlinks.
    While this works, it may lead to troubles when a synlink is supposed to
    be created by upcoming definitions, so let's avoid this
  * build-ci: Also run on pull requests
  * build-deb: Add git version to package
  * debian: Ensure gnome-shell themes symlinks are preserved
  * debian: Add pre-install script that removes dangling symlinks (LP: #1968405)
  * icons: Update rendered icons and symlinks

  [ Martin Wimpress ]
  * icons: Add panel icons for MATE Optimus, Diodon, Caffiene & Variety
  * icons: Make dropboxstatus-x.svg panel icons a red that is consistent with
    other "alert" panel icons
  * icons: Add symlinks for missing gaming input battery levels (LP: #1967854)
  * icons: Add gaming-input symlink mapping to panel.list (LP: #1967854)
  * metacity: Define the base button dimensions
    This is used to determine whether the image needs to be re-scaled when
    rendering on different DPI densities. (LP: #1967507)
  * metacity: Add window buttons to dialog window
  This ensures dialog windows will always have a close window button.

  [ Paul Kepinski ]
  * GS: fix fg_color of unfocused selected calendar day
  * GS: fix lock screen switch user button in light theme
  * GS: fix entries border radius (LP: #1967826)
  * Sync Gtk popover/menu bg with GS
  * GS: fix for entries height shift
  * Fix notifications shadow (revert to upstream look)
    * Move up notification shadow
  * Add ubiquity 22x22 size
  * Nautilus drop image preview border-radius
  * Nautilus fix selecte...

[Jaimech (c-pjaime)]

It worked for me too.

Thanks very much Marco!

[Farrokh (gnome1919)]

Using dpkg method worked but apt still nags about the same issue. I had to mark the "yaru-theme-gnome-shell" package as hold so I could continue using apt!

[devkiNETic (devkinetic)]

Dpkg method not working

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.4_all.deb
(Reading database ... 237549 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.4_all.deb ...
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: file '/usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-theme.gresource.xml' not owned by package 'yaru-theme-gnome-shell:all'
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: directory '/usr/share/themes/Yaru/gnome-shell' contains files not owned by package yaru-theme-gnome-shell:all, cannot switch to symlink
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.4_all.deb (--install):
 new yaru-theme-gnome-shell package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-bark-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-bark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-blue-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-blue/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-magenta-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-magenta/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-olive-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-olive/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-prussiangreen-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-prussiangreen/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-purple-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-purple/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-red-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-red/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-sage-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-sage/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-viridian-dark/gnome-shell ...
Restoring backup of /usr/share/themes/Yaru-viridian/gnome-shell ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/yaru-theme-gnome-shell_22.04.4_all.deb

[devkiNETic (devkinetic)]

I was able to remove the file, gnome-shell-theme.gresource.xml which seemed to be left over from a previous upgrade, and the install worked.

[Karl Schindler (k-schindler)]

there is no xml extension in that folder. removing the file without the xml extensions just added new errors. in the end i renamed the Yaru folder to Yaru.old. that installed the new version and added a new Yaru folder with just one link in it. the old folder contained several files and a link to itself.