{"id":5106,"date":"2016-07-24T17:53:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T14:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2016-07-24T17:53:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T14:53:42","slug":"its-looking-for-plymouth-and-plymouthd-in-the-initrd-bin-and-sbin-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2016\/07\/24\/its-looking-for-plymouth-and-plymouthd-in-the-initrd-bin-and-sbin-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s looking for plymouth and plymouthd in the initrd \/bin and \/sbin directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those scripts are ran from the initrd, so it&#8217;s looking for plymouth and plymouthd in the initrd \/bin and \/sbin directories, and those are probably missing the said files just as the error message says.<\/p>\n<p>\/usr\/share\/initramfs-tools\/hooks\/plymouth is responsible for copying the plymouth executables onto the initrd, so to see why it fails to copy the files, I added `set -x` to it and then ran `update-initramfs -v -u`.<\/p>\n<p>In my case (I&#8217;m running Kodibuntu, I recently upgraded the underlying system from 14.04 to 16.04) the issue was that the hook failed to find Kodibuntu theme files for Plymouth, because it was looking for them in \/usr\/share\/plymouth\/themes (which apparently is the standard place), whereas the files actually resided in \/lib\/plymouth\/themes for some (legacy?) reason. The hook therefore determined that I have no working Plymouth theme and thus don&#8217;t need the executables. <\/p>\n<p>After moving the theme files to \/usr\/share\/plymouth\/themes (and some manual labor updating references in the files themselves as well as Plymouth&#8217;s alternatives) the hook now correctly finds those files and then proceeds to copy the Plymouth executables onto the initrd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my case the hook failed to find a theme, because it was looking at \/usr\/share\/plymouth\/themes when it actually resided in \/lib\/plymouth\/themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8860],"tags":[14000],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vianhallintajarjestelmat","tag-plymouth","sijainti-launchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5110,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}