I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10 and I also get this warning. I am using an NVIDIA card too.
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ × 2 4 Gio memory GeForce 7300 GT/PCIe/SSE2 [ 0.997148] Corrupted low memory at ffff88000000fe68 (fe68 phys) = 380000a210 [ 0.997199] Memory corruption detected in low memory [ 1.928035] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) [ 1.928097] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) [ 24.458468] init: Error while reading from descriptor: Broken pipe -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364630 Title: init: Error while reading from descriptor: Broken pipe To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1364630/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp