following error occurs: dracut: *** Including module: plymouth *** ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants/plymouth-switch-root.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.target.wants/plymouth-start.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/plymouth-start.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plymouth-quit.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plymouth-quit-wait.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/reboot.target.wants/plymouth-reboot.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/kexec.target.wants/plymouth-kexec.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/poweroff.target.wants/plymouth-poweroff.service': No such file or directory ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/tmp/dracut.ErEhsL/initramfs//usr/lib64/systemd/system/halt.target.wants/plymouth-halt.service': No such file or directory sys-boot/plymouth-0.8.8-r4 and sys-boot/plymouth-0.8.8-r5 are working
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These errors are from "plymouth-populate-initrd" script provided by sys-boot/plymouth. It contains it's own implementation of inst* functions, so this is likely a plymouth bug.
# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (04 Aug 2017) # sys-boot/plymouth is unmaintained since Apr 2016. The current version # has multiple bugs, including not supporting OpenRC. It really needs # an active maintainer. Removal in 30 days. Bug #621470. # # The remaining packages are sys-boot/plymouth reverse dependencies. # They have no use without it, so they are being removed as well. kde-plasma/breeze-plymouth kde-plasma/plymouth-kcm sys-boot/plymouth sys-boot/plymouth-openrc-plugin
Are you still encountering this bug ? I use >=dracut-0.44 + >=plymouth-0.9.2 with no problem like this here.
(In reply to Gilles Dartiguelongue from comment #4) > Are you still encountering this bug ? I use >=dracut-0.44 + >=plymouth-0.9.2 > with no problem like this here. ditto
Updated kernel and dracut a couple of times on different machines and could not reproduce the problem. Please update the ticket if you can still reproduce it.
