Comment 36 for bug 522197

OK Gabe. You may be right. I was not completely serious when I said no one cares about the messages. I know it is important to solve every issue but what I was trying to say was that most of the people end up in this bu report because they have a major issue like the machine not booting. I checked almost all the bugs with a similar description and everywhere the developers are concentrating more on the message than on the boot failure. Anyway, I did not comment again for this reason. To whom it may concern I managed to boot in Ubuntu but not in Mint with the following procedure, even though I can not explain why it worked:

boot with init=/bin/bash
fsck /dev/sda6 (root partition, still ro)
mount -a
cd /etc
cd rcS.d
for i in `ls S*`; do ./$i start;done
cd ../rc2.d/
for i in `ls S*`; do ./$i start;done
startx

OF COURSE IT FAILED but

when I reset the system it booted normally.

I tried the same with Mint but it did not work. It even brought the problem to the Ubuntu again.
I tried again with the Ubuntu and it worked again. Now I'm working on it.

I can not explain why it is working. The / filesystem is ro so it can not change anything there and I don't have separate /usr or something. I have only two other partitions, one ext3 and one ntfs for keeping data (not system data).

So, in my opinion this could be a hardware (low chances) or a mounting issue. I think the later should be the real problem. Or it might be pure luck but I don't think so.