I can confirm this on kubuntu karmic final.  This bug was NOT present in
karmic alpha3, so perhaps the use of upstart is responsible?  Mounting
tmpfs to /tmp does NOT cause this problem, just /var or a /var subdir.

To reproduce, add this line to fstab:
tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults,noatime,size=1000M,mode=1777 0 0
or
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,size=1000M,mode=1777 0 0

In addition, this is an important ability for systems with SSDs (in
order to minimize disk writes).  mountall --version reports "mountall
1.0".  I installed from kubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso

This may be a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/431040  but that
bug was closed as "fix released".  This has not been fixed.

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failed to boot if /var/tmp and /tmp specified in /etc/fstab
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/471794
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