plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

[Mark Rabideau]

entire desktop crashes after the latest 11.10 upgrade. background has slid to the bottom right.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Sep 29 12:46:20 2011
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K52F
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=c963f7e8-dd60-47d3-96ad-3bbf3449e699 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=c963f7e8-dd60-47d3-96ad-3bbf3449e699 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7ff1d3f8b504 <ply_event_loop_process_pending_events+468>: test %r12d,0x8(%r13)
 PC (0x7ff1d3f8b504) ok
 source "%r12d" ok
 destination "0x8(%r13)" (0x00000008) 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 () from /lib/libply.so.2
 ply_event_loop_run () from /lib/libply.so.2
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-09 (20 days ago)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 11/01/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: K52F.212
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: K52F
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrK52F.212:bd11/01/2010:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnK52F:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnK52F:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: K52F
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

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