Same message here but somewhat different dmesg output. I'm running 14.10 upgraded from 14.04, and nvidia binary driver 331.113
dmesg (excerpted): ... init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (294) killed by TERM signal (the *only* mention of "plymouth") ... then much later... Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:03:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20130102 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 0 NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 331.113 Mon Dec 1 21:08:13 PST 2014 input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:03:00.1/sound/card1/input12 input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:03:00.1/sound/card1/input13 floppy0: no floppy controllers found work still pending EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) init: Error while reading from descriptor: Broken pipe init: failsafe main process (904) killed by TERM signal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364630 Title: init: Error while reading from descriptor: Broken pipe To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/1364630/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs