On latest F17 w/ updates # rpm -q dracut plymouth systemd dracut-018-40.git20120522.fc17.noarch plymouth-0.8.4-0.20120319.2.fc17.x86_64 systemd-44-12.fc17.x86_64 NOTE: I have a serial console attached to this machine (which the BIOS and grub2 is also hooked up to), here's the kernel command-line # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64 root=UUID=119f7aee-6a8f-4c4d-88fa-7160324a010f ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200,8n1 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us Here's the crash # journalctl Jun 01 15:18:31 titan systemd-journal[255]: Journal started Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: *** glibc detected *** /sbin/plymouthd: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x000000000040e227 *** Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: ======= Backtrace: ========= Jun 01 15:18:31 titan systemd-journal[255]: Journal started Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: *** glibc detected *** /sbin/plymouthd: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x000000000040e227 *** Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: ======= Backtrace: ========= Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7b616)[0x7f4312c9f616] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: /lib64/libply.so.2(ply_hashtable_foreach+0x53)[0x7f43138fda93] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: /sbin/plymouthd[0x40c069] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: /sbin/plymouthd[0x40475c] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7f4312c45735] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: /sbin/plymouthd[0x405605] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: ======= Memory map: ======== Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 00400000-00412000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24643373 /usr/sbin/plymouthd Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 00611000-00612000 r--p 00011000 08:01 24643373 /usr/sbin/plymouthd Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 00612000-00613000 rw-p 00012000 08:01 24643373 /usr/sbin/plymouthd Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 00a9e000-00abf000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43127f3000-7f4312808000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24774502 /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.7.0-20120507.so.1 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312808000-7f4312a07000 ---p 00015000 08:01 24774502 /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.7.0-20120507.so.1 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312a07000-7f4312a08000 rw-p 00014000 08:01 24774502 /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.7.0-20120507.so.1 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312a08000-7f4312a1e000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24774539 /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312a1e000-7f4312c1e000 ---p 00016000 08:01 24774539 /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312c1e000-7f4312c1f000 r--p 00016000 08:01 24774539 /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312c1f000-7f4312c20000 rw-p 00017000 08:01 24774539 /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312c20000-7f4312c24000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312c24000-7f4312dd0000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24774513 /usr/lib64/libc-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312dd0000-7f4312fd0000 ---p 001ac000 08:01 24774513 /usr/lib64/libc-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312fd0000-7f4312fd4000 r--p 001ac000 08:01 24774513 /usr/lib64/libc-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312fd4000-7f4312fd6000 rw-p 001b0000 08:01 24774513 /usr/lib64/libc-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312fd6000-7f4312fdb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312fdb000-7f4312fde000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24774519 /usr/lib64/libdl-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4312fde000-7f43131dd000 ---p 00003000 08:01 24774519 /usr/lib64/libdl-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43131dd000-7f43131de000 r--p 00002000 08:01 24774519 /usr/lib64/libdl-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43131de000-7f43131df000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 24774519 /usr/lib64/libdl-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43131df000-7f43131e6000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24774543 /usr/lib64/librt-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43131e6000-7f43133e5000 ---p 00007000 08:01 24774543 /usr/lib64/librt-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43133e5000-7f43133e6000 r--p 00006000 08:01 24774543 /usr/lib64/librt-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43133e6000-7f43133e7000 rw-p 00007000 08:01 24774543 /usr/lib64/librt-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43133e7000-7f43134e1000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24774521 /usr/lib64/libm-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43134e1000-7f43136e0000 ---p 000fa000 08:01 24774521 /usr/lib64/libm-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43136e0000-7f43136e1000 r--p 000f9000 08:01 24774521 /usr/lib64/libm-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43136e1000-7f43136e2000 rw-p 000fa000 08:01 24774521 /usr/lib64/libm-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43136e2000-7f43136f3000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24775323 /usr/lib64/libply-splash-core.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43136f3000-7f43138f2000 ---p 00011000 08:01 24775323 /usr/lib64/libply-splash-core.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43138f2000-7f43138f3000 r--p 00010000 08:01 24775323 /usr/lib64/libply-splash-core.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43138f3000-7f43138f4000 rw-p 00011000 08:01 24775323 /usr/lib64/libply-splash-core.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f43138f4000-7f431390a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24775325 /usr/lib64/libply.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f431390a000-7f4313b09000 ---p 00016000 08:01 24775325 /usr/lib64/libply.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313b09000-7f4313b0a000 r--p 00015000 08:01 24775325 /usr/lib64/libply.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313b0a000-7f4313b0b000 rw-p 00016000 08:01 24775325 /usr/lib64/libply.so.2.0.0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313b0b000-7f4313b2b000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 24773147 /usr/lib64/ld-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313d1f000-7f4313d24000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313d28000-7f4313d29000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313d29000-7f4313d2a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313d2a000-7f4313d2b000 r--p 0001f000 08:01 24773147 /usr/lib64/ld-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313d2b000-7f4313d2c000 rw-p 00020000 08:01 24773147 /usr/lib64/ld-2.15.so Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7f4313d2c000-7f4313d2d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7fff134bd000-7fff134de000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: 7fff135ff000-7fff13600000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Jun 01 15:18:33 titan plymouthd[340]: unexpectedly died from signal Aborted immediately after starting to daemonize Jun 01 15:18:33 titan systemd[1]: Unit plymouth-start.service entered failed state.
# cat /sys/class/tty/console/active tty0 ttyS0
plymouth-0.8.5-0.2012.04.27.1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/plymouth-0.8.5-0.2012.04.27.1.fc17
Yes, this seems to work. Thanks.
Package plymouth-0.8.5-0.2012.04.27.1.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing plymouth-0.8.5-0.2012.04.27.1.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-8817/plymouth-0.8.5-0.2012.04.27.1.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
plymouth-0.8.5-0.2012.04.27.1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.