[Bug 800701] Re: init: plymouth-stop pre-start process terminated with status 1

[Steve Langasek]

Do you still see this issue with current oneiric?  If so, a couple more
things to try:

 - unset the 'GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1680x1050-24' option in /etc/default/grub and re-run update-grub to see if the error displays
 - run 'apport-collect 800701' so we get full information about your plymouth config.  I get hints of it from the plymouth debug log, but I'm not sure which parts are deliberate and which parts might indicate a bug.

In any event, the plymouth debug log indicates a normal exit of
plymouth.  So *something* is succeeding in calling 'plymouth quit', but
then it looks like the plymouth-stop job is being triggered after
plymouth has already exited.  One possible explanation is that plymouth-
stop is being triggered *twice* by two different events: probably
'starting lxdm' + 'stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]', and because the events
are far enough apart, plymouth has already exited before the second
event happens, preventing upstart from eating the event.

One way to test for this would be for you to add as the first line after
'pre-start script' in /etc/init/plymouth-stop.conf the following:

   echo "$UPSTART_EVENTS" >> /run/what-killed-plymouth.log

then, after booting the system and confirming that you see the error
message, attach /run/what-killed-plymouth.log to this bug.

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Summary changed:

- init: plymouth-stop pre-start process terminated with status 1
+ init: plymouth-stop pre-start process terminated with status 1(plymouth-stop called multiple times due to race?)

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  init: plymouth-stop pre-start process terminated with status 1
  (plymouth-stop called multiple times due to race?)

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 dev with plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu23. My desktop
  environment is LXDE with LXDM as login manager. Since a few months I
  get on every system boot the message "init: plymouth-stop pre-start
  process (PID) terminated with status 1". The system is working fine
  with this message but it's annoying to see it every time.

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