Comment 218 for bug 554172

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Michael Mathers (michael-mathers) wrote : Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

Critical vs High

"For example, if the system fails to boot, or X fails to start, on a certain make and model of computer"

This is not a certain make and model. It appears to be any make and model. It also appears that it can occur almost spontaneously as a response to even normally very benign environmental conditions (did your DHCP server take longer to respond than normal?). Also given as many issues that this is considered "duplicate" of and that it appears it could unpredictably strike anyone without notice makes it pretty serious indeed. That's my case and I'll leave it at that.

For me it appeared on a fresh 10.04 Server install, after upgrading on 7/28, and only after a change of physical environment (disconnected monitor, different network). Yesterday, I attempted to duplicate it on similar hardware and could not.