On Mon, May 02, 2011, AJ ONeal wrote:
I don't think that plymouth is a particularly necessary service (especially since I don't have a display), so my temporary solution is to disable it like so: cd /etc/init ls plymouth*.conf | while read CONF do mv ${CONF} ${CONF}.off done Can anyone offer me any suggestions?
Plymouth is used a message and user-interaction multiplexer so that new devices and filesystems can appear during boot and be fscked, and the user can be prompted -- asynchronously. It's not just the framebuffer output used to display a splash.
I don't have suggestions for your SEGV; there are debug flags for plymouth which you might be able to use; you could also spawn a terminal at various stages of the boot and try running plymouth yourself or under gdb