Does not install correct syslinux theme

cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-oneiric/isolinux-live/*': No such file or directory

You need to install the syslinux-themes-ubuntu package. ubuntu-defaults-builder recommends it, but perhaps you uninstalled it or installed with --no-install-recommends?

I have syslinux-themes-ubuntu installed, but I'm running Precise. I think that means that ubuntu-defaults-image shouldn't look for the directory 'ubuntu-oneiric' but for 'ubuntu-precise'.

I'll try to copy ubuntu-precise to ubuntu-oneiric in /usr/share/syslinux/themes, and see if that solves it.

Copying ubuntu-oneiric to ubuntu-precise and building the example image did give an iso. It's not really functional, but thats probably due to the alpha nature of precise at the moment.

Can you please give me the output of

  dpkg -l 'syslinux-themes*'|cat

? syslinux-themes-ubuntu version 2 depends on syslinux-themes-ubuntu-precise, which does ship /usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-precise .

test@test:~$ dpkg -l 'syslinux-themes*' | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Naam Versie Omschrijving
+++-======================================-========================================-==============================================================================
ii syslinux-themes-ubuntu 2 collection of boot loaders (theme metapackage)
ii syslinux-themes-ubuntu-precise 2 collection of boot loaders (ubuntu-precise theme)

Also, I made an error in my previous comment. The system had /usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-precise, but ubuntu-default-image is looking for files in /usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-oneiric. So I copied ubuntu-precise to ubuntu-oneiric, and that seemed to help

Ah, so that way around. Are you actually building a precise image, or an oneiric one? In the latter case, you'd need to install syslinux-themes-oneiric.

I'm trying to build a precise image. Since I'm on precise, I just call

ubuntu-default-image --package name.deb

so it should default to the current system, which is precise.

Hello Martin,

I'm building the Italian Iso for my LoCo Team and I can confirm this bug.
In a fresh Precise installations I ran:

ubuntu-defaults-image --ppa ubuntu-defaults-it-team/ubuntu-defaults-it --locale it --components main,restricted,universe --release precise --arch i386

And at the end I got:

P: Begin installing syslinux...
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-oneiric/isolinux-live/*': No such file or directory

With this error the image hasn't been created. I ran the same commands from Oneiric and everything worked fine.

Hi Paolo Sammicheli,

I believe this is due to an error in ubuntu-defaults-builder (maybe the path to /usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-oneiric/isolinux-live/ is hardcoded?). As a temporary fix I just copied the content of /usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-oneiric to /usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-precise. When I do that, it does generate an image, but I'm not sure what other problems this could cause.

Thank you Redmar! Yes I've read about this workaround, thank you anyway.

I hope this bug will be fixed in time for Precise, btw

Ciao!

Ah, I see the problem. live-build has in ./functions/defaults.sh:

        case "${LB_MODE}" in
                [...]
                ubuntu)
                        LB_SYSLINUX_THEME="${LB_SYSLINUX_THEME:-ubuntu-oneiric}"
                        ;;

So we'll need to set this explicitly.

Fixed in bzr, works now.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-defaults-builder - 0.24

---------------
ubuntu-defaults-builder (0.24) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/copyright, template/debian/copyright: Update to copyright format
    1.0.
  * debian/control, template/debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3.
  * Drop support for webbrowser/offline-startpage.txt, as this is not actually
    configurable in Firefox, and we do not support other browsers at the
    moment. (LP: #950097)
  * bin/ubuntu-defaults-image: Explicitly set LB_SYSLINUX_THEME, to not rely
    on live-build's static default (which is "ubuntu-oneiric" right now).
    (LP: #910859)
  * bin/ubuntu-defaults-image, man/ubuntu-defaults-image.1: Add --keep-apt
    option to not clean up /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages from the live system.
    This will significantly enlarge the resulting ISO image, but will make
    package related operations work without an initial "apt-get update" run.
    (LP: #942180)
  * template/desktop/default-{session,applications}.txt,
    template/webbrowser/searchengine.txt: Add comments that these files may
    not be changed for Ubuntu localizations, only for derivatives and OEM
    projects.
  * test/run: Change package name to "defaults-test", as with
    "ubuntu-defaults-test" we are going to fail for some customizations.
  * bin/dh_ubuntu_defaults: Check if template file has a "NotUbuntu:" tag, and
    if so, disallow changing defaults if the package name starts with
    "ubuntu-". (LP: #881371)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:03:23 +0100

Hi, please checkout Bug #1514704 for the similar issue.