Comment 4 for bug 564360

# ps -ef|grep setup
root 26759 18404 0 10:11 pts/3 00:00:00 aptitude reinstall console-setup-mini
root 26959 26759 0 10:11 pts/2 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 32 --configure console-setup-mini
root 26960 26959 0 10:11 pts/2 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup-mini.postinst configure 1.34ubuntu14
root 27135 26960 0 10:11 pts/2 00:00:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup-mini.postinst configure 1.34ubuntu14
root 27192 17886 0 10:14 pts/1 00:00:00 grep setup
# ps -ef|grep plym
root 214 1 0 Apr14 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session
root 476 1 0 Apr14 ? 00:00:00 /bin/plymouth update-root-fs --read-write
root 550 1 0 Apr14 ? 00:00:00 /bin/plymouth show-splash
root 702 1 0 Apr14 ? 00:00:00 /bin/plymouth quit
root 27179 27135 0 10:11 pts/2 00:00:00 plymouth --ping
root 27194 17886 0 10:14 pts/1 00:00:00 grep plym
#

Seems this maybe more plymouth related than console setup?

I took the chance to reboot the server, and get the following trace:

init: ureadahead-other main process (289) terminated with status 4
init: ureadahead-other main process (309) terminated with status 4
 * Starting AppArmor profiles [ OK ]
 * Setting sensors limits [ OK ]
 * Starting domain name service... bind9 [ OK ]
 * ipvsadm is not configured to run. Please run dpkg-reconfigure ipvsadm
 * Starting nagios-nrpe nagios-nrpe [ OK ]
 * Starting DHCP server dhcpd3 * check syslog for diagnostics.
                                                                         [fail]
 * Starting web server apache2 [ OK ]
mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Plymouth command failed

Ubuntu lucid (development branch) svr hvc0

However the mount table looks normal.