Comment 10 for bug 735805

It's looking like the change I made for bug 436936 might be the culprit, but I am unable to recreate this issue at present.

Please could follow the steps below to run Upstart in debug mode:

1. Hold down SHIFT key before the splash screen appears (this will then display the grub menu).
2. Type, "e" to edit the default kernel command-line.
3. Use the arrow keys to go to the end of the line which starts "linux /boot/vmlinuz ...".
4. Press END key (or use arrows) to go to end of the line.
5. Add a space followed by "--debug" (note the two dashes).
6. Press CONTROL+x to boot with this modified kernel command line.

This will tell upstart to log debug info to /var/log/syslog. So, once you can login, please run this:

  grep init: /var/log/syslog |gzip -9 > /tmp/bug-735805-syslog.txt.gz

And then attach that file to this bug.

It would also be useful if you could also attach a copy of your udev log:

  gzip -9 -c /var/log/udev > /tmp/bug-735805-udev.txt.gz

Thanks in advance.