[Bug 894190] Re: 'Could not write bytes broken pipe' occurs just before log in with Lubuntu 11.10

[Steve Langasek]

Is this the exact error message?  I think there may be some words
missing here; that's ok if you don't have the exact message, I have a
pretty good idea of what the right message is anyway.

Our bug bot has marked this as a bug against the plymouth package.  The
message is related to plymouth, but we have not in general heard reports
of this problem with Ubuntu 11.10.  We *have* heard of such things on
Lubuntu in particular.  So there seems to be something wrong in the
Lubuntu startup sequence that causes plymouth to be killed earlier than
it should be.

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Title:
  'Could not write bytes broken pipe' occurs just before log in with
  Lubuntu 11.10

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Just did the latest round of updates on 24-11-11, including a kernel
  update, and got this message just before log in 'Could not write bytes
  broken pipe'.

  I did a clonezilla restore of Lubuntu 11.10 and then did all of the
  updates again and the same problem occured. After being away from the
  computer for half an hour I started it up again and the error message
  seems to have gone for now. System seems stable but this error message
  was worrying as it happened half a dozen times on boot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Nov 24 10:03:55 2011
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/lubuntu-logo/lubuntu-logo.plymouth
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H55-USB3
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic-pae root=UUID=4db51777-c355-45d7-9529-0012a7a183b9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic-pae root=UUID=4db51777-c355-45d7-9529-0012a7a183b9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/lubuntu-text/lubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 08/20/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: F7
  dmi.board.name: H55-USB3
  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.board.version: x.x
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF7:bd08/20/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnH55-USB3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnH55-USB3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: H55-USB3
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

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