It's not usplash related in my case. Without usplash I see the same behavior
There's a 3 second stall (see line 392 of the attachment) There's a 30 second stall (see line 471) ** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12960778/log.txt -- [Hardy] Booting stalls two times for several seconds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201303 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