I also get this error since long time ago, however is not always, it's
just sometimes. When it happens i'm not able to login. After i input
username+pw and click login it gets blocked and I can do nothing but
rebooting the bad way.

In my error report generated by Ubuntu I have the following:
   "plymouth error destination "(%rdi)"... not located in a known VMA region 
(needed writable region)!"
   "writing unknown VMA"

<- i'm not sure if this helps. To me seems a problem of timing of
loading something during the boot and login. However some users solve it
by changing permissions, so maybe is related to the above message that I
have read it happens when a process tries to access to RAM addresses is
not allowed to. Some users said to give 775 others 777, if 775 works,
maybe the key is the group writable permission.

The dependencies of plymouth seems long:
sudo apt-get remove --simulate plymouth
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cryptsetup gdm lightdm mountall plymouth plymouth-label 
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-gnome-logo plymouth-theme-ubuntu-gnome-text 
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text ubuntu-desktop 
ubuntu-gnome-desktop unity unity-greeter unity-tweak-tool upstart
  upstart-bin

Are any of this packages ran under a user account without permission to
fire plymouth?, moreover, does that account belong to a group that
actually has write permission on plymouth?. Why timing on logging
matters? (I do sometimes login smoothly and sometimes not).

Sorry, but i can go further on this, and these are the questions that
come to my head that might, might not, give a hint to someone else.

Cheers

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