Comment 110 for bug 544139

okay, I've used the original Lucid consolekit package (0.4.1-3ubuntu1) for some reboot tests.
I can reproduce the symptoms: 1. reboot: okay - 2. .. 5. reboot failed with the symptoms.

1. reboot syslog (ok)
egrep "console" /var/log/syslog_20100901_2 | grep -v activation
Sep 1 18:16:04 st-002 rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Sep 1 18:16:04 st-002 kernel: [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled

2. reboot syslog (failed)
egrep "console" /var/log/syslog_20100901_3 | grep -v activation
Sep 1 18:20:03 st-002 rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Sep 1 18:20:03 st-002 kernel: [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
Sep 1 18:20:03 st-002 init: Failed to open system console: Input/output error
Sep 1 18:20:04 st-002 console-kit-daemon[1050]: WARNING: Could not determine active console

Good. Now I'll try to reproduce this timing problem with Lennies PPA.