Public bug reported:
Without me doing anything peculiar, my Ubuntu 14.04 system started pulling in
packages from Xenial. 1st symptom was a broken dependency in plymouth. After a
big apt-get update, many packages were broken.
Various packages were removed (like synaptic), and it was recommended that I
re-installed 14.04.
Since I had found booting from a USB very problematic for the original install
(on my Intel NUC), I instead tried an update-manager -d and approved the
upgrade. After about an hour, with all required packages downloaded and about
50% of them installed, the system rebooted without warning while I was in the
middle of working.
When it restarted it appeared to be half-installed, but wouldn't boot to a
graphical UI. It said the plymouth package was broken.
I ran dpkg --configure -a, which seemed to install a lot of packages, though it
complained that avahi-daemon, avahi-util, telepathy-salut, and
account-plugin-salut were broken, at the end.
I tried rebooting and got the meaningless to a normal person error:
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No
such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1)
Fortunately, google revealed that this means some stupid decision that
unmountable drives should translate into a nonsense error and make it appear
that the system is broken by refusing to boot. But adding the nofail option to
non-essential drives in /etc/fstab should fix the problem, after a reboot. It
did, but after login various errors popped up asking if I wished to report them.
This is one of them.
My impression is that Ubuntu has made a large leap backwards in
reliability and usability. I gather the stupid decision to prevent a
boot when some drives are unavailable is a design decision in systemd.
If true, that is an astonishingly bad choice.
The bizarre error message and opaque error message "Error getting
authority..." could be used as an excellent example to support those
people who argue that Linux is user unfriendly. It provides insufficient
context to even guess what it might be referring to; and it contains the
classic "No such file or directory" with the failure to actually name
the full path of the file that's missing. Remarkable that design errors
like that are still being coded in.
What does this have to do with the plymouth package? I have no idea. All
I could provide in this bug report was context for what had happened.
Hopefully the automatically-collected files will provide more useful
information than I can, to diagnose the problem.
I see that I've installed 16.04. update-manager -d does not actually
tell you that in advance.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-5.16-generic 4.3.3
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 17 00:13:14 2016
DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-24 (722 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140123)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.3.0-5-generic
root=UUID=c3e55a79-8e13-4001-b7b4-d73cc05b2443 ro quiet splash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.3.0-5-generic
root=UUID=c3e55a79-8e13-4001-b7b4-d73cc05b2443 ro quiet splash
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
apt 1.1.10
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Title: package plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu9 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/18/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: WYLPT10H.86A.0018.2013.0918.2135
dmi.board.name: D34010WYK
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: H14771-302
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrWYLPT10H.86A.0018.2013.0918.2135:bd09/18/2013:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD34010WYK:rvrH14771-302:cvn:ct3:cvr:
** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-package xenial
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package plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu9 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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