I experienced the same issue, I tried to launch plymouth manually from an X session:
~$ sudo ./plymouth start the screen becomes black (with a message at the top about /dev/sda), it is not possible to interact at all. CTRL-F2 to switch to a console, ps -ef does not show any plymouth service, however and I tried to stop it: ~$ sudo ./plymouth stop a message confirmed it has been successfully stopped (!), however the graphical session remains freezed. ~$ reboot and since then the problem is gone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/927636 Title: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in script_obj_deref_direct() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/plymouth/+bug/927636/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
