Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: upstart

I have an Ubuntu 10.04 KVM virtual machine set to launch automatically
at boot (using option: "autostart").

When my host computer boots up, the virtual machine launch fails.  It
freezes at boot, with this error message (right after the root disk
fsck):

init: Failed to spawn rc-sysinit main process: Unable to open console:
Input/output error.

(That is the message on the autostarted virtual machine.  The host
computer works fine.)

The problem is intermittent.  It has happened once in the last 5
reboots.

I believe this bug may be related to bug #543506, because users are
seeing that same error text in their system logs.  But in this case, the
virtual machine won't boot up at all.

Another user reported this bug on real, physical hardware (not a virtual 
machine):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1495569

Thus, I do not think the problem has anything to do with virtualization,
or with hardware.

My virtual machine is a JeOS install with a LAMP stack.  There is no GUI
desktop, just a text-mode login console shell.  The video card is an
emulated cirrus card.

This issue might be the same issue in Question #109171:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/109171

(I don't read Spanish, but that thread references using a "quiet splash"
option that was also listed in bug #543506.  I don't know what to do
with that option, or if that is a confirmed workaround.)

On the VM:
r...@ubuntu:~# lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release:        10.04
r...@ubuntu:~# apt-cache policy upstart
upstart:
  Installed: 0.6.5-6
  Candidate: 0.6.5-6
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.5-6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
r...@ubuntu:~#

** Affects: upstart (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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init: Failed to spawn rc-sysinit main porcess: Unable to open console: 
Input/Output error.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587079
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