I think it is related to X. The first poster related it to network manager, and I think this also can make sense. I have no idea why, but it seems that network-manager causes the systems to hang in some cases. For instance, I reported a frequent bug concerning this behaviour at startup here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/143990
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