Error: "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!"

[Mountain Man]

I've seen this error coming up intermittently during boot. How can I figure out what's causing it? Is there a log file somewhere? It started happening shortly after I upgraded to 13.04, but I'm not sure if that's just a coincidence.

[Snowhog]

Try this. Edit (as root) /etc/default/grub. Press Alt+F2 and type: kdesudo kate /etc/default/grub and press enter.

Change:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX

To:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="noapic"



Save and close Kate. Open a console and type:

sudo update-grub2

Reboot. Any improvement?

[Mountain Man]

I'll give that a shot and let you know. If I don't encounter any problems in the next week then I'll assume the problem is solved (like I said, it's been intermittent, so a single reboot can't confirm a fix).

[Mountain Man]

Nope, it's still happening.

There's apparently a trace that's automatically run, but I don't know where to find the log.

[Mountain Man]

Nobody has any other ideas?

[Mountain Man]

Well whatever the problem was, it seems to have sorted itself out since I haven't encountered the "recursive fault" message in over a week. Maybe it was a Plymouth bug? Because I've noticed that Plymouth has been updated a couple of times since the release of 13.04.