Comment 24 for bug 561049

After an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade, I'm still experiencing intermittent failures to boot properly. Out of 9 boots, I had one failure, which was different than what I was experiencing before. I get a black screen with nothing in it but a blinking _ cursor. If I do a ctl-alt-f7, I see this message: "fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 ..." I don't know if this is the same bug or a different one. I've seen reports that there is a problem with Plymouth that occurs when there is an fsck. This might be that problem. I'm unable to collect apprt info or kern.log, because I don't get a login prompt. I'll try some more and see if I can get the same behavior I saw before.