Comment 5 for bug 430272

I can confirm that the same thing happened to me. After before 1-2 hours i did a dist-upgrade and system wont boot after reboot.
The system hangs after /scripts/init-bottom.

In my case i manage to login to the system by editing through grub and putting rw instead of ro and init=/bin/bash
When i tried an apt-get upgrade the package initscripts has been kept back. if i force install it the system ask me to remove almost all packages (gdm, ubuntu desktop, etc)

The worst is that i can get to connect to the net so i have no idea how am i going to fix that system failure.