While troubleshooting, I downgraded to linux-image-2.6.31-20-virtual and upstart-0.6.3-10 from Karmic on both of i386 and amd64, but the problem persisted.
This makes me think that the glitch is my upstart configuration or udev. I haven't yet been able to downgrade udev to check because most of the boot stack seems to be stuck on plymouth. -- upstart disables hvc0 getty in Lucid 10.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572708 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs