I have now recreated using utopic-desktop-amd64.iso (20140923) and http://people.canonical.com/~jhunt/upstart/conf/rebooter.conf to force continuous reboots.
It appears that the problem only occurs if "quiet splash" is specified since I ran 25 boots without those options and was unable to recreate the issue.
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[1] - http://people.canonical.com/~jhunt/upstart/conf/rebooter.conf
I have now recreated using utopic- desktop- amd64.iso (20140923) and http:// people. canonical. com/~jhunt/ upstart/ conf/rebooter. conf to force continuous reboots.
It appears that the problem only occurs if "quiet splash" is specified since I ran 25 boots without those options and was unable to recreate the issue.
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[1] - http:// people. canonical. com/~jhunt/ upstart/ conf/rebooter. conf