package initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu13.5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Jeff Lee]

Occurred during do-release-upgrade from 12.04.4 to 14.04.1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu13.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-48.74-generic 3.2.46
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-48-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 12 15:21:16 2014
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu13.5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2014-08-12 (0 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From VarLogDistUpgradeApttermlog.gz:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...^M
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-67-generic^M
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango/1.6.0/module-files.d/libpango1.0-0.modules': No such file or directory^M
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so': No such file or directory^M
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.^M
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-67-generic with 1.^M
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--remove):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Hedley Finger (hedley-finger)]

I was trying to upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS after being notified of an upgrade availability by the Upgrade Manager

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-67-generic
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango/1.6.0/module-files.d/libpango1.0-0.modules': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango/1.6.0/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-3.2.0-67-generic with 1.

[auxbuss (launchpad-auxbuss)]

I've just hit this problem. Are there any suggestions for a fix? Or trying one?

[auxbuss (launchpad-auxbuss)]

As with #4, I was/am trying to upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS.

It appears that the 14.04 upgrade is trying to do:

  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-89-generic-pae

which is the my kernel from 12.04. Whether or not it should be doing this, I don't know.

The files it can't find (libpango1.0-0.modules and pango-basic-fc.so) were in the libpango1.0-0 package for 12.04, but are no longer present in later versions. See:

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=precise&arch=any&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=libpango1.0-0.modules

In any case, by this point in the upgrade the package has been removed:

  p libpango-1.0-0

I'm SOL at this point.

I'd appreciate a suggestion for workaround to this in lieu of a fix.