Description of problem: plymouth's posttrans scriptlet tries to invoke /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-generate-initrd, which is defunct. plymouth, however, seems to run fine without plymouth-initrd, since it seems to be included on the initramfs by dracut. Is plymouth-initrd still needed? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): plymouth-0.8.4-0.20120319.2.fc17.i686 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install plymouth Actual results: posttrans says "Need 'inst' function, try setting PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS to a file that defines it" The same thing happens if you invoke /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-generate-initrd manually. Expected results: - nothing? - plymouth-initrd is created? I can't really tell you, since I don't understand the logic about what this plymouth-initrd is supposed to be good for. Additional info: Note bug 615763; you won't see the error message if you use yum to install the package.
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