Thank you Heineken. Downgrading to upstart 0.6.3-10 solved the issue for me, too. It looks as if the changes made in 0.6.3-11 (wait until the loopback device is up?) keep upstart from working properly on some systems. There are several reports of this issue on the forum.
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