Interesting. I guess the clue was the splash screen gave way to the error messages for you, where as for others (and me) the splash stayed on screen - even though the same messages could be found by manually changing VTs.
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 84592 feisty shutdown eject doesn't -- strange messages on live cd shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/90844 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
