plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

[Carl Karsten]

I have been rebooting the machine every minute for a few hours, logging some firewire data. might be relevant. log filled up?

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-4.10-generic 3.2.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 18 19:31:26 2011
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook PC
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-generic root=UUID=b5c83a0b-baed-4a8b-a828-b65be5fe3d29 ro firewire-ohci.debug=3
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-generic root=UUID=b5c83a0b-baed-4a8b-a828-b65be5fe3d29 ro firewire-ohci.debug=3
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f5783b47504 <ply_event_loop_process_pending_events+468>: test %r12d,0x8(%r13)
 PC (0x7f5783b47504) 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 (main=0x403830, argc=3, ubp_av=0x7fff99b2feb8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fff99b2fea8) at libc-start.c:226
 ?? ()
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 01/11/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.27
dmi.board.name: 30CF
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 85.24
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.27:bd01/11/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv6700NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30CF:rvr85.24:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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