plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

[Tamer Saadeh]

Happens in Precise.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Mar 1 12:58:45 2012
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic root=UUID=953a763e-6074-429f-8435-dac836ca3813 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic root=UUID=953a763e-6074-429f-8435-dac836ca3813 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb7c6ee5504 <ply_event_loop_process_pending_events+468>: test %r12d,0x8(%r13)
 PC (0x7fb7c6ee5504) 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 precise on 2012-02-27 (2 days ago)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 08/20/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.21
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 3603
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 02.26
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.21:bd08/20/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv5NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn3603:rvr02.26:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #849414, 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.

[Tamer Saadeh (tamersaadeh)]

I'm not sure if this should be a duplicate of #849414, since that bug happened in 10.04 and was fixed. Since I'm seeing something similar in 12.04, then this bug is new and not a duplicate. I might be wrong though.

[Tamer Saadeh (tamersaadeh)]

Sorry I take it back, I thought apport was referring to a different bug in 10.04.