Ubuntu Mate 14.10 Beta 2 plymouthd error on bootup

[Christopher]

untu Mate 14.10 Beta 2 plymouthd error on bootup. No further infomation.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: plymouth 0.9.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-20.27-generic 3.16.3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 7 05:29:32 2014
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-mate-logo/ubuntu-mate-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-26 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu MATE 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - beta2 amd64 (20140925)
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite P50-A
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-20-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=2ae78306-0417-4c4c-b739-731a33003189 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcCmdline: @sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-20-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=2ae78306-0417-4c4c-b739-731a33003189 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis: Skipped: missing required field "Disassembly"
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-mate-text/ubuntu-mate-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 04/23/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: 1.80
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: VG10ST
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvr1.80:bd04/23/2014:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteP50-A:pvrPSPMKU-04002Q:rvnTOSHIBA:rnVG10ST:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: Satellite P50-A
dmi.product.version: PSPMKU-04002Q
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ply_renderer_get_buffer_for_head (renderer=0x3ff0000000000000, head=0x0) at ply-renderer.c:328
 ply_pixel_display_draw_area (display=0x15faef0, x=347, y=316, width=21, height=21) at ply-pixel-display.c:144
 draw_area (data=0x15f7840, height=<optimized out>, width=<optimized out>, y=<optimized out>, x=<optimized out>) at ./script-lib-sprite.c:537
 script_lib_sprite_refresh (data=0x15f7840) at ./script-lib-sprite.c:837
 stop_script_animation (plugin=0x15f7250) at ./plugin.c:320

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel (cdtenzi)]

This fixes it:

sudo chown -R user:user /lib/plymouth

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 04:01:05PM -0000, Daniel wrote:

> sudo chown -R user:user /lib/plymouth

That is absolutely not an appropriate fix for this bug.