Specifically, the problem is in libply-splash-core.so. Building that one with gcc-4.4 works, while using the other three shared libs from the current natty libplymouth2 package. In particular, I tested this by building locally (but not installing), and running
sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/src/libply-splash-core/.libs ~/test- plymouth.sh = Compiler juggling = gcc-4.4, -O2: works gcc-4.5, -O0: works gcc-4.5, -O1: works gcc-4.5, -O2: fails gcc-4.5, -O3: fails gcc-4.5, -02, purging hardening-wrapper: fails /usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin/gcc, -O2: fails /usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin/gcc, -O1: works -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685352 Title: libplymouth2_0.8.2-2ubuntu6 and later give ragged splash and text rendering -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs