[Bug 571258] Re: plymouth main process (341) killed by SEGV signal

[Sabin Sathian]

I had same issue trying to boot with custom kernel (3.1.6) on Ubuntu 11.04
Booting froze and after editing grub for non-silent, I could see the following:

init: plymouth main process (940) killed by SEGV signal
init: plymouth-splash main process (940) terminated with status 2

Though the final logs that we see on screen is about plymouth, the actual problem is with udev, and logs just scroll away:
udevd[1003]: failed to create queue file: No such file or directory

But fortunately I found a very simple solution:
"The real problem is that a new version of udevd requires an entry for /dev in /etc/fstab, as suggested here. I added at the end of /etc/fstab the following line:
dev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0"

Everything works fine with this change.


Thank you Jon, You are a life saver.
http://jonmccune.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/plymouth-main-process-341-killed-by-segv-signal/

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Title:
  plymouth main process (341) killed by SEGV signal

Status in The Plymouth splash screen:
  Invalid
Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: plymouth

  During boot, plymouth crashes with a segmentation violation and subsequently plymouth-splash and plymouth-log are terminating.
  After that, the boot process would hang forever.

  init: plymouth main process (341) killed by SEGV signal
  init: plymouth-splash main process (3011) terminated with status 2
  init: plymouth-log main process (3047) terminated with status 1

  Attached is a screenshot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-grml i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: af_packet video output sbs sbshc pci_slot battery ac fuse ipv6 scb2_flash mtd chipreg map_funcs i2c_piix4 rtc_cmos button processor container i2c_core rtc_core rtc_lib hpilo evdev pcspkr loop aufs usb_storage usb_libusual ohci_hcd ehci_hcd tg3 sg aic7xxx scsi_transport_spi usbcore sworks_agp floppy thermal fan squashfs
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Apr 28 16:00:10 2010
  DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  Lsusb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  MachineType: HP ProLiant DL360 G3
  ProcCmdLine: initrd=/boot/grml/initrd.gz boot=live apm=power-off vga=791 quiet nomce  BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/grml/linux26
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/text.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  dmi.bios.date: 05/01/2004
  dmi.bios.vendor: HP
  dmi.bios.version: P31
  dmi.chassis.type: 23
  dmi.chassis.vendor: HP
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHP:bvrP31:bd05/01/2004:svnHP:pnProLiantDL360G3:pvr:cvnHP:ct23:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: ProLiant DL360 G3
  dmi.sys.vendor: HP

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