plymouthd crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

[David Pires]

After today's updates and after rebooting not only Plymouthd but also LightDM crash.

Hardware specs: http://phillw.net/hardware/Ed3c22qV

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-5.14-generic 3.10.2
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-5-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg: [ 59.622723] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1145) terminated with status 1
Date: Tue Jul 23 09:29:57 2013
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/xubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-22 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130721)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-5-generic root=UUID=b4b6f2f5-eece-41c1-8d97-d9bdddd99f6f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcCmdline: @sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-5-generic root=UUID=b4b6f2f5-eece-41c1-8d97-d9bdddd99f6f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
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/i386-linux-gnu/libply.so.2
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-text/xubuntu-text.plymouth
Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.board.name: VirtualBox
dmi.board.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.board.version: 1.2
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:rvnOracleCorporation:rnVirtualBox:rvr1.2:cvnOracleCorporation:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH

[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.