I've written a basic script that runs a set of random plymouth commands "post-boot". I am still unable to recreate the SIGSEGV crash on all my hardware, but it would be interesting to see if those who are experiencing the problem can run this script to generate a crash. If you're willing...
1. Download script: cd /tmp && wget http://people.canonical.com/~jhunt/plymouth/test_plymouth.sh 2. Make it executable: chmod 755 test_plymouth.sh 3. Install required package: sudo apt-get install plymouth-x11 4. Run 2 instances of script 4a) In one terminal: sudo /tmp/test_plymouth.sh --server 4b) In another terminal: sudo /tmp/test_plymouth.sh --client --max 2048 Unfortunately, you *might* find that the server instance of the script will exit with a "Too many open files" message. This issue as been reported with plymouth upstream. To work around this, before running the server instance of the script -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/849414 Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/849414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs