With the last batch of updates, plymouth broke with the following error during start-up:

mountall: error while loading shared libraries: libplybootclient.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
init: mountall main process (265) terminated with status 127

It’s getting some attention at Ubuntu Forums here and here. There’s also a bug report already filed with a fix on the way.

If you find yourself stuck with a non-bootable Lucid, the posts and bug reports have some ideas. Myself, I used a workaround suggested by Rob2687 and loaded a Karmic LiveCD (LiveUSB key actually), mounted my root partition and added a new symbolic link.

sudo mkdir /mnt/root
sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/root
sudo ln -s /mnt/root/lib/libply-boot-client.so.2.0.0 /mnt/root/lib/libplybootclient.so.2

My Lucid install was able to reboot successfully after this.

UPDATE: Updates have been pushed out to correct this situation with the following versions:
plymouth 0.8.0~-14
mountall 2.8

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