The installation fails on PPC

[Laurent Bigonville]

The installation of the version 0.2.28-1 fails on PPC with "update-alternatives: unable to make /boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/grub-artwork: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type"

On PPC there is no grub installed.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

It failed for me on i386 too. I also don't use grub.

Here's some relevant shell history. Note that "sudo mkdir /boot/grub" is enough to fix the problem, although the fix should probably be not to try to install the alternative if grub isn't installed.

(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  mousepad xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-panel xfce4-session
  xfce4-utils xfprint4 xfwm4
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up ubuntu-artwork (0.2.28-1) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/grub-artwork: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-artwork (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ubuntu-artwork
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$ sudo update-alternatives --install /boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz grub-artwork /usr/share/pixmaps/grub/ubuntu-artwork.xpm.gz 40
update-alternatives: unable to make /boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/grub-artwork: No such file or directory
(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$ apt-cache policy grub
grub:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.97-1ubuntu4
  Version table:
     0.97-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$ ls -l /sbin/update-grub
ls: /sbin/update-grub: No such file or directory
(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$ ls -l /boot/grub
ls: /boot/grub: No such file or directory
(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$ sudo mkdir /boot/grub
(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  mousepad xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-panel xfce4-session
  xfce4-utils xfprint4 xfwm4
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up ubuntu-artwork (0.2.28-1) ...

(dapper) chris@chrislap:~$

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

work for me ubuntu-artwork 0.2.28-2

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

This was fixed in ubuntu-artwork 0.2.28-2.

/var/lib/dpkg/info/ubuntu-artwork.postinst has been fixed, moving the update-alternatives command to inside a "if [ -d /boot/grub ]; then" test.

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

I think I can close this bug