[Bug 855933] Re: mountall: Plymouth command failed

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:06:37PM -0000, Sworddragon wrote:
> I have a minimalistic system. I have removed all unneeded packages and
> there are no recommended packages installed. This is uncommon but a
> valid installation. Maybe there is a dependency missing which is
> normally only installed as a recommendation. I will try to figure out if
> a package is mssing but maybe somebody else has an idea about this error
> message.

Ah.  The plymouth package has:

  Recommends: plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text | plymouth-theme

I don't recall why this is only a Recommends.  Perhaps it's because you can
use the details plugin without any theme... but you're already booting
without 'splash', so that's exactly the plugin that should be used here.

That at least gives enough information to try to reproduce this locally. 
Can you try installing the plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text package, to see if it
resolves the issue for you?


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

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

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Title:
  mountall: Plymouth command failed

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 dev with Plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu26. On a system boot I get the message "mountall: Plymouth command failed" and "mountall: Could not connect to Plymouth". I have seen this message after I tested this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/800701
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: mountall 2.36
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.7-generic 3.4.0
  Tags:  quantal
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDmesg:
   Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm: /var/log/dmesg: No such file or directory
   dmesg: write failed: Broken pipe
  DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  Lspci: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Lsusb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: plymouth 0.8.4-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.0-3-generic root=UUID=f1ce7323-74dc-46f7-95f7-887cc54403e7 ro
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.0-3-generic root=UUID=f1ce7323-74dc-46f7-95f7-887cc54403e7 ro
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.7-generic 3.4.0
  Tags:  quantal
  TextPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/text.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  dmi.bios.date: 04/21/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: P2.10
  dmi.board.name: N68-S
  dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP2.10:bd04/21/2010:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnN68-S:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
  dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

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