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plymouth-start.service fails: core dump

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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      The plymouth-start.service fails to start during an installation, the process plymouthd is aborted:

      [anaconda root@localhost ~]# coredumpctl info
                 PID: 1158 (plymouthd)
                 UID: 0 (root)
                 GID: 0 (root)
              Signal: 6 (ABRT)
           Timestamp: Thu 2025-08-07 11:20:55 UTC (6min ago)
        Command Line: @usr/sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --pid-file=/run/plymouth/pid --attach-to-session
          Executable: /usr/sbin/plymouthd
       Control Group: /system.slice/plymouth-start.service
                Unit: plymouth-start.service
               Slice: system.slice
             Boot ID: 7510807294ff41d1a28267fc1a2e017f
          Machine ID: 472c1fadf79143409a59d31b082fcd86
            Hostname: localhost
             Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.plymouthd.0.7510807294ff41d1a28267fc1a2e017f.1158.1754565655000000.z>
        Size on Disk: 77K
             Message: Process 1158 (plymouthd) of user 0 dumped core.
                      
                      Module libcap.so.2 from rpm libcap-2.69-7.el10.x86_64
                      Module libudev.so.1 from rpm systemd-257-11.el10.x86_64
                      Module libxkbcommon.so.0 from rpm libxkbcommon-1.7.0-4.el10.x86_64
                      Module libevdev.so.2 from rpm libevdev-1.13.1-6.el10.x86_64
                      Module libply-splash-core.so.5 from rpm plymouth-24.004.60-17.el10.x86_64
                      Module libply.so.5 from rpm plymouth-24.004.60-17.el10.x86_64
                      Stack trace of thread 1158:
                      #0  0x00007f6eaa5459dc __pthread_kill_implementation (libc.so.6 + 0x969dc)
                      #1  0x00007f6eaa4efa96 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x40a96)
                      #2  0x00007f6eaa4d78fa abort (libc.so.6 + 0x288fa)
                      #3  0x00007f6eaa4d781e __assert_fail_base.cold (libc.so.6 + 0x2881e)
                      #4  0x00007f6eaa4e7ff6 __assert_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x38ff6)
                      #5  0x00007f6eaa6c91e9 ply_event_loop_remove_source (libply.so.5 + 0xc1e9)
                      #6  0x00007f6eaa6cda02 ply_event_loop_process_pending_events (libply.so.5 + 0x10a02)
                      #7  0x00007f6eaa6cdb18 ply_event_loop_run (libply.so.5 + 0x10b18)
                      #8  0x000055b62d84d442 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                      ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
      [anaconda root@localhost ~]#
      

      Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

      RHEL-10.1-20250807.0
      plymouth-24.004.60-17.el10

      How reproducible is this bug?:

      Always?

      Steps to reproduce

      1. Download dvd/boot.iso from compose RHEL-10.1-20250807.0 / x86_64
      2. Boot the ISO in a KVM virtual machine
      3. Switch to TTY2 when anaconda starts, check journalctl

      Expected results

      plymouthd running without errors.

      Actual results

      Process 1158 (plymouthd) of user 0 dumped core.
      

              rh-ee-avovk Adrian Vovk
              jstodola@redhat.com Jan Stodola
              Adrian Vovk Adrian Vovk
              Barry Dunn Barry Dunn
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