[Bug 1082742] Re: plymouthd: ply-terminal.c: 611 ply_terminal_open: Assertion `terminal != ((void *)0)' failed.

[Robie Basak]

"I am tired of telling each user how to work around a problem."

Frustratingly, you didn't mention the workaround in this bug, and
Googling found your G+ post which says "cd /etc/init; for p in
plymouth*;do echo "manual" > ${p}.override;done" which doesn't quite
work.

For those stuck, the answer is that the override files need to be
called, eg. plymouth.override, NOT plymouth.conf.override.

With that correction, X fails to start, but Ctrl+Alt+F1 [Ctrl+Alt+←] at
least gets me a terminal with which I can view /var/log/Xorg.0.log and
see the problem, which I don't think is related to this bug any more.

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Title:
  plymouthd: ply-terminal.c: 611 ply_terminal_open: Assertion `terminal
  != ((void *)0)' failed.

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Plymouth on Chromebook always ends with this message. I added manual
  overrides for all plymouth jobs in /etc/init/ but I am tired of
  telling each user how to work around a problem.

  There were suggestions that this is because of kernel cmdline: "cros_secure console= console=tty1 printk.time=1 quiet nosplash rootwait root=/dev/mmcblk0p7 rw loglevel=0" because plymouth only takes first one while kernel is using the last one...
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: armhf
  DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  MarkForUpload: True
  Package: plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: armhf
  ProcCmdLine: cros_secure console= console=tty1 printk.time=1 quiet nosplash rootwait root=/dev/mmcblk0p7 rw loglevel=0
  ProcFB: 0
  ProcKernelCmdLine: cros_secure console= console=tty1 printk.time=1 quiet nosplash rootwait root=/dev/mmcblk0p7 rw loglevel=0
  Tags:  raring
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0 armv7l
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dialout dip plugdev video

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