plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

[John Pyper]

This is a fresh install of Xubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 i386. Plymouth crashes with no specific details. Splash screen does not display during boot sequence.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu27
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 27 10:58:53 2011
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/xubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.3)
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5610
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb5ee80: cmp 0xc(%eax),%edi
 PC (0x00b5ee80) ok
 source "0xc(%eax)" (0x0000000c) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: plymouth
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 free () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-text/xubuntu-text.plymouth
Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 08/12/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V3.60
dmi.board.name: Grapevine
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Jim&BeckyMcCreary
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV3.60:bd08/12/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire5610:pvrV3.60:rvnAcer:rnGrapevine:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5610
dmi.product.version: V3.60
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

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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 #846880, 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.