[Bug 1525699] Re: Error message "/sbin/plymouthd: not found" is shown on booting

[Michael F Winthrop]

I continued my experimenting.

startx will get me a GUI with my application icons. It will not provide
me with decorations and menus. No command bar at the bottom. Right click
has no useful effect.

I opened a folder  (on the desktop) and navigate, via folders, to get to an executable xterm.
I then right click that and make a desktop icon. The same for firefox.
I can now open the xterm and type in "kwin --replace", which gives me decorations on some applications (but not the xterm). I get the following complaints when I do the kwin --replace:

/Desktop$ kwin --replace &                     
[1] 5000
dad at dad314159:~/Desktop$ Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
kbuildsycoca4 running...
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied
Setting the name of  0x12b1240  to  "org.kde.ActivityManager.Resources.Scoring"
Creating directory:  "/home/dad/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/"
KActivities: Database can not be opened in WAL mode. Check the SQLite version (required >3.7.0). And whether your filesystem supports shared memory
Service started, version: 
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.81'
OpenGL vendor string:                   Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string:                 Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset 
OpenGL version string:                  2.1 Mesa 11.2.0
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
Driver:                                 Intel
GPU class:                              i965
OpenGL version:                         2.1
GLSL version:                           1.20
Mesa version:                           11.2
X server version:                       1.18.3
Linux kernel version:                   4.4
Requires strict binding:                yes
GLSL shaders:                           yes
Texture NPOT support:                   yes
Virtual Machine:                        no
detected kglobalaccel restarting, re-registering all shortcut keys
KActivities: FATAL ERROR: Failed to contact the activity manager daemon
Failed to establish shared memory mapping, will fallback to private memory -- memory usage will increase

dad at dad314159:~/Desktop$ plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop: command not found
dad at dad314159:~/Desktop$ QMetaProperty::read: Unable to handle unregistered datatype 'KWayland::Server::SurfaceInterface*' for property 'KWin::Toplevel::surface' 

I reinstall kwin and then kwin*. Numerous files are needed. I then do
"sudo apt-get build-dep kwin" and get still more files installed.

None of this fixes anything!

Still experimenting

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Title:
  Error message "/sbin/plymouthd: not found" is shown on booting

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev with plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu5 and on booting
  I'm seeing the error message "/sbin/plymouthd: not found" (it gets not
  logged so I'm not sure about the full output).

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