[Bug 1074843] Re: plymouth programs are running altough system startup finished

[Steve Langasek]

The information attached to your bug report shows several system
configuration errors:

 DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1: 
 TextPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/text.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:

So you have no valid plymouth theme configuration on this system.  This
may cause unexpected behavior.

But as for the plymouth process running after boot, the bug report also
shows this:

 CurrentDmesg: [ 15.224003] init: lightdm main process (818) killed by
TERM signal

This suggests that a bug in lightdm may be preventing plymouthd from
being stopped correctly, since it's lightdm that stops plymouthd.

> Is there a way to use init in order to launch plymouthd at shutdown ?

This question seems to be unrelated to the rest of your bug report.  The
system already launches plymouthd at shutdown.

** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => lightdm (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  plymouth programs are running altough system startup finished

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Below are the running processes :
  -----
  j at j-VB:~$ ps axl | head -1 && ps axl | grep -i ply | grep -v "grep"
  F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
  5     0   199     1  20   0  46524   688 epoll_ S    ?          0:00 /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
  4     0   380     1  20   0  19636  1004 epoll_ Ss   ?          0:00 plymouth-upstart-bridge
  j at j-VB:~$ 
  -----

  Is there a way to use init in order to launch plymouthd at shutdown ?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: plymouth 0.8.4-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDmesg: [   15.224003] init: lightdm main process (818) killed by TERM signal
  Date: Sun Nov  4 10:57:16 2012
  DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-20 (14 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1: unable to initialize libusb: -99
  MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=cd43b074-5f0e-46e5-8362-13424056d921 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=cd43b074-5f0e-46e5-8362-13424056d921 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/text.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
  dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
  dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:
  dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
  dmi.product.version: 1.2
  dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH

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