plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in script_obj_deref_direct()

[Carlos Suárez]

Crash on reboot after update 2016-03-02 with new kernel 4.4.0.9

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-8.23-generic 4.4.2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 2 19:26:27 2016
DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-21 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160220)
MachineType: Acer Aspire X3950
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-8-generic root=UUID=a9ea69ac-cba3-4032-a9c7-1f977919a1a0 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: @sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --pid-file=/run/plymouth/pid --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-8-generic root=UUID=a9ea69ac-cba3-4032-a9c7-1f977919a1a0 ro quiet splash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fbc3ad54660 <script_obj_deref_direct>: cmpl $0x1,(%rdi)
 PC (0x7fbc3ad54660) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: plymouth
StacktraceTop:
 script_obj_deref_direct () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 script_obj_as_custom () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 script_execute_object () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 script_lib_plymouth_on_boot_progress () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libply-splash-core.so.4
TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/text/text.plymouth
Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in script_obj_deref_direct()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 04/13/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P01-A2
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: Aspire X3950
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP01-A2:bd04/13/2010:svnAcer:pnAspireX3950:pvr:rvnAcer:rnAspireX3950:rvr:cvnAcer:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Aspire X3950
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 script_obj_deref_direct () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_CYG7hz/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 script_obj_as_custom () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_CYG7hz/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 script_execute_object () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_CYG7hz/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 script_lib_plymouth_on_boot_progress () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_CYG7hz/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth/script.so
 ply_boot_splash_update_progress () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_CYG7hz/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libply-splash-core.so.4

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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