Comment 25 for bug 873495

I no longer have this issue as a result of some system modifications. I changed my laptop disk arrangement so that I have two SSDs configured as RAID0. This has had the sum effect of slightly slowing down boot time from my previous configuration of just the one SSD. I do not use the proprietary NVIDIA driver on my system (NVIDIA GeForce G210M ) and I did a complete reinstall of 12.04. Obviously I'm not saying this is somethnig everyone should do - I needed this particularly setup and as a knock-on effect it stopped the low graphics mode error occurring. I am adding this result here as it *might* indicate something useful to someone in the know. I suspect my resolution here is as a direct result of the boot time slow down which would corroborate with the OP's supposition that this is a race condition.