plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

[Dimitris Kas]

I've got a crash report while using firefox

Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04
plymouth:
  Installed: 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
  Candidate: 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.2-2ubuntu28 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 17.493482] init: plymouth main process (249) killed by SEGV signal
 [ 17.620613] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1162) terminated with status 1
 [ 26.488085] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
 [ 51.235741] audit_printk_skb: 36 callbacks suppressed
 [ 51.235751] type=1400 audit(1330938658.611:24): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=1953 profile="/usr/lib/telepathy/mission-control-5" name="/usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/" pid=1954 comm="mission-control" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Date: Mon Mar 5 11:10:23 2012
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 910
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic-pae root=UUID=24b3183f-0afe-474e-9f43-63198b88309c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic-pae root=UUID=24b3183f-0afe-474e-9f43-63198b88309c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb77605b7 <ply_event_loop_process_pending_events+455>: test %ecx,0x4(%esi)
 PC (0xb77605b7) ok
 source "%ecx" 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 () from /lib/libply.so.2
 ply_event_loop_run () from /lib/libply.so.2
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/i386-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: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 12/29/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A04
dmi.board.name: CN0F29
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A04
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A04
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA04:bd12/29/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron910:pvrA04:rvnDellInc.:rnCN0F29:rvrA04:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA04:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 910
dmi.product.version: A04
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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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.