SEGV with plymouth on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04

[Matthias.Winker]

When booting into Ubuntu GNOME, most of the boots are causing a SEGV in Plymouth as follows:

Aug 26 17:03:55 matthias-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 356 (plymouthd).
Aug 26 17:03:57 matthias-VirtualBox systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
Aug 26 17:03:57 matthias-VirtualBox systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 26 17:03:57 matthias-VirtualBox systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.

Searching the Internet, I have found the issue: With the installation of the VBox Additions, it seems that the plymouth service needs to be re-configured to use the framebuffer.

After issuing the following command, I got never again a SEGV:

echo "FRAMEBUFFER=y" | sudo tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash && sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

I have found this information here:

​https://askubuntu.com/questions/695761/plymouthd-crashes-on-startup-intel-hd-3000-15-10

So a potential solution could be to issue this command (or similar) when installing the guest additions on a Linux guest containing plymouth.