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[Clint Byrum <clint@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Janne, can you attach your /etc/network/interfaces file? If you have
a hardware interface defined there as dhcp, but not always plugged in,
the system will wait an extra 2 minutes to boot. As kvark points out,
those are the relevant bugs that have been dealt with since introducing
that change.

However, I'm fairly certain this is a red herring, as the last message
is the one thing printed before the failsafe boot continues.
Essentially, at that point, the system is virtually guaranteed to enter
runlevel 2, which should result in lightdm starting as long as dbus has
been started, and a graphics device has been initialized.

If somebody affected can boot with '--verbose nomodeset' added to the
kernel command line (edit it during the grub menu) and 'quiet' removed,
and then try looking on tty1 (ctrl-alt-f1) and 7 (ctrl-alt-f7) for some
log output, that may be helpful in debugging this.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/856810

Title:
  Boot hangs at "Booting system without full network configuration..."

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “netcfg” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I installed Ubuntu 11.10 beta1 64bit on a new laptop. I rebooted and
  it came up nicely.

  After that I did "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get
  the most recent fixes and installed some additional software.

  Now I do not seem to be able to boot.

  Fist I see:
  Waiting for network configuration...

  Then I see:
  Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration...

  And then it just hangs forever displaying the following:
  Booting system without full network configuration...

  Nothing happens after that, no matter how long I wait. However, I can
  switch to the console with CTRL-ALT-F1 and log in from there. The
  network is configured with DHCP and it works just fine from the
  console. I do not understand what the GUI boot display is waiting for.

  I installed the system using the alternate install CD to get LVM based
  partitions with full disk encryption.

  I noticed the bug #847782 and removed the "auto eth0" entry from my
  /etc/network/interfaces. Unfortunately that did not change anything,
  it still hangs forever.

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