Every time my laptop boots, I am greeted by several "Ubuntu 13.10 has experienced an internal error" dialogs once the graphical desktop environment (whatever it's called) is displayed. Apparently the problem originates from plymouthd, which is (unsurprisingly) the daemon of the Plymouth boot splash application.
Has anyone ever found a fix for this type of issue?
(I would provide log excerpts but I'm not sure where to find them.)
I have experienced the same error when I first installed Ubuntu 13.10 on the toshiba harman/kardon this week.
I solved the error with a single command:
Open a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type:
sudo chown -R $USER: /lib/plymouth
Then all the permission issues are solved and the error is gone in the next boot.
A possible solution not mentioned here is to run:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure Plymouth
From: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-gnome-default-settings/+bug/1536771
I was experiencing this problem, also. I found out that /lib/plymouth did not exist. I installed plymouth using Synaptic (but you can use whatever pkg installer you like), and it fixed the problem.
There are other plymouth packages, but it looked like they were already installed for Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 64 bit, which is what I am using. I also discovered that when I installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 32 bit, I didn't have this problem. For me, it was only a problem with the 64 bit install.
In my case (Ubuntu Gnome 17.04), when I looked at the error details, it said the error was that /var/log/boot.log didn't exist. I just did 'sudo touch /var/log/boot.log' and the error went away.
