Bug#394280: bootsplash: post-installation script exits with error code 10

[Nick Dickerson]

Package: bootsplash
Version: 3.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

When attempting to install bootsplash I get the following errors.
I have also tried to reinstall bootsplash and botsplash-theme-debian and
someone stated this fixed the issue in a previous version of bootsplash
with a similar bug, but it did not help.  Also note this bug seems to be 
similar to bug #375372 which is marked as fixed.

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Setting up bootsplash (3.3-1) ...
dpkg: error processing bootsplash (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  bootsplash
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages bootsplash depends on:
ii  bootsplash-theme-debian [boo 0.5-6   The bootsplash theme debian
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]1.5.6   Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools  0.84tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc62.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libmng1  1.0.9-1 Multiple-image Network Graphics li
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages bootsplash recommends:
ii  grub  0.97-18GRand Unified Bootloader

-- debconf information:
* shared/bootsplash-bootloader: grub
* bootsplash/initramfs: false
* shared/bootsplash-bootloader-info:
  shared/bootsplash-custom-initrd:
* shared/bootsplash-initscript: true
* bootsplash/bootloader: false
* shared/bootsplash-initrd: none


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Bug#394280: bootsplash: post-installation script exits with error code 10

[Steve Langasek]

severity 394280 important
thanks

This error message is a telltale sign of a debconf-related error (calling
db_get for a missing question), but looking at the current maintainer script
for the package I'm not able to poke any holes in it; bootsplash depends on
the theme, so the theme must be installed before the bootsplash postinst is
called, which means shared/bootsplash-theme and
bootsplash-theme-$NEW_THEME/resolutions must both have been registered.  The
other questions belong to the bootsplash package itself, so must also be
registered.

The only possibility I see is that some package other than the
bootsplash-theme-debian package in the archive is installed which registers
shared/bootsplash-theme, but the name it gives does not have a corresponding
bootsplash-theme-$theme/resolutions question.   It is possible to improve
the bootsplash maintainer script to guard against that, but doing so should
not be release-critical.

Nick, it might be helpful if you could tell us here the value of
"echo GET shared/bootsplash-theme | debconf-communicate".

Thanks,
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