plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

[Mark Cariaga]

Binary package hint: plymouth

"could not write in bytes: broken pipe" error occurs at boot. I'm not sure if the the error message right. LOL.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.1-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 10.026020] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
 [ 19.560094] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Thu Apr 1 23:21:29 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Mini
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=380aaa69-2260-4cfd-9ba7-135314eddc35 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xbb7fe1 <ply_event_loop_process_pending_events+513>: test %eax,0x4(%esi)
 PC (0x00bb7fe1) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "0x4(%esi)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: plymouth
StacktraceTop:
 ply_event_loop_process_pending_events ()
 ply_event_loop_run () from /lib/libply.so.2
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 361A0 Ver. F.15
dmi.board.name: 361A
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 02.12
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU9142WGK
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr361A0Ver.F.15:bd08/21/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPMini:pvrF.10:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn361A:rvrKBCVersion02.12:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Mini
dmi.product.version: F.10
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

needs a full backtrace from the retracer.

[Mark Cariaga (mzc)]

@steve: how do I do that? please advise

On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 07:51 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> needs a full backtrace from the retracer.
>
> ** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This will be done automatically by an automated system; should happen in the next day or so.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #553745, 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.