[Bug 1309617] Re: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (189) terminated with status 1 at boot

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

the bridge is suppose to run during startup (boot) and shutdown, when there is also plymouthd running.
However plymouthd can be started from initramfs or via upstart job.
In the case when plymouthd has been started from the initramfs, we can be running the bridge straight away, otherwise it needs to wait for plymouthd to start. The termination messages are from the later case when plymouthd was not started from the initramfs. I wonder how to best minimize impact here, e.g. doing plymouth ping in pre-start. and start on startup or started plymouth.

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Title:
  plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (189) terminated with status 1 at
  boot

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I see this when I boot (I got it by running the dmesg command):
  [    7.631865] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (173) terminated with status 1
  [    7.632154] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning
  [    7.670080] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (183) terminated with status 1
  [    7.670443] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning
  [    7.706173] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (186) terminated with status 1
  [    7.706534] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning

  I don't know if plymouth-upstart-bridge is supposed to be running at all time but it doesn't on my machine:
  bbigras at ubuntunew:~$ ps ax | grep plymouth-upstart-bridge
   8784 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto plymouth-upstart-bridge

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Apr 18 12:04:00 2014
  DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-21 (86 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130820.2)
  Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1: unable to initialize libusb: -99
  MachineType: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname--vg-root ro
  ProcFB: 0 svgadrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname--vg-root ro
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (0 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/13/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
  dmi.bios.version: 6.00
  dmi.board.name: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
  dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
  dmi.board.version: None
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.chassis.type: 1
  dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr6.00:bd10/13/2009:svnVMware,Inc.:pnVMwareVirtualPlatform:pvrNone:rvnIntelCorporation:rn440BXDesktopReferencePlatform:rvrNone:cvnNoEnclosure:ct1:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: VMware Virtual Platform
  dmi.product.version: None
  dmi.sys.vendor: VMware, Inc.
  mtime.conffile..etc.init.plymouth.stop.conf: 2014-04-18T09:37:28.562680

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