Comment 16 for bug 512253

Robbie, it's a regression. In previous release, you would screw up your interfaces file, the system would still boot, only there would be no networking. Mistake do happen, failing gracefully is the right thing to do when possible.

What I do not understand is: why is a problem with networking preventing getty to be spawned on the console? It is completely counter-intuitive, it just does not make any sense.

I understand it's how Upstart behave, but if services are failing on completely unrelated service not starting, that's pretty brittle. Can we make it more robust please?