plymouthd crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

[cecilpierce]

1 Ubuntu quantal 12.10
2 plymouth
3 no crash
4 plymouthd crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 30.179676] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
 [ 30.179685] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 4.1.18_Ubuntu (interface 0x00190000).
 [ 30.654005] vboxpci: IOMMU not found (not registered)
 [ 32.723559] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1298) terminated with status 1
 [ 300.004034] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Date: Fri Aug 10 09:22:00 2012
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz root=UUID=4bcd7de7-178e-4c44-9235-9628f484cb8d ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz root=UUID=4bcd7de7-178e-4c44-9235-9628f484cb8d ro quiet splash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: plymouth
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 __assert_fail () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ply_event_loop_watch_fd () from /lib/libply.so.2
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 05/23/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.00
dmi.board.name: P4VM800
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.00:bd05/23/2005:svn:pnP4VM800:pvr1.00:rvn:rnP4VM800:rvr1.00:
dmi.product.name: P4VM800
dmi.product.version: 1.00

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1009238, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[miked (miked11)]

root@ubuntu:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid
root@ubuntu:~# uname -mrs
Linux 3.18.0-12-generic x86_64
root@ubuntu:~#
I $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade my Wubi based Ubuntu installtion.