Comment 18 for bug 92276

Splashy is giving this kind of segfaults and famous error -2 on system if frambuffer device wasn't setup. To see status of your framebuffer device use sudo dfbinfo or sudo hwlist --framebuffer. To set it up coment out in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer vesafb, vga16fb and vfb and also put this modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file. Then update your initramfs with update-initramfs -u and reboot. You can play with various resolution if you press e and edit grub conf file and put it in vga=ask or you can edit it before boot and run update-grub. Tested with kernel 2.6.27-9-generic and splashy 0.3.8-1 .