here is the output of that command:
# echo GET shared/bootsplash-theme | debconf-communicate
10 shared/bootsplash-theme doesn't exist
Also I do have bootsplash-theme-debian installed. But I was not asked any debconf questions when installing bootsplash. Some extra info that may help is that I used to use the packages for bootsplash from http://www.bootsplash.de/. As such I have other bootsplash themes manually installed and I am using one of those and not bootsplash-theme-debian. So /etc/bootsplash/themes/current already exists and points to an existing theme, and I have an initrd image for this theme already. Also Im using a custom compiled kernel from kernel.org sources and not a debian kernel. My kernel doesnt require an initrd image to boot. My initrd image is just used for bootsplash.
I did look at the post inst script I was asked to debug, but I did not see anything that led me to believe it was the culprit. After your explanation Im thinking it may be related to my existing bootsplash setup more than anything else.
Thanks,
Nick
On 11/8/06, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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