Comment 19 for bug 522197

Same show-stopping bug here. Just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.4 and found this nasty surprise. Boot appears normal until final message is printed to terminal:

init:ureadahead-other main process (1004) terminated with status 4

and that's it. Flashing cursor underneath. Can't type anything. SSH not enabled.

I'm totally locked out. Single boot doesn't work. Old kernels don't work.

ALT-F1 and ALT-F7 show the same output. F2 thru F6 show blank screens.

CTRL-ALT-DEL causes a reboot after showing that a few running services are terminating (all remaining processes...deconfiguring network interfaces...)