I thought I would just report that I discovered the cause of the eight minute delay: /etc/resolv.conf was missing.
I finally tracked it down by calling /bin/sh instead of init, starting an strace on pid 1 in a second console and starting init by hand. This was way too much effort for such a simple problem, but at least I found it. -- upstart-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
