Thank you for your time Steve, please bear with me and define "reproducible"
for me. 
I booted into Ubuntu off the rescue screen a few days ago, don't
know if that says anything helpful.

If I can't debug, will it lead to my system crashing and to avoid that, what
are my options? Sorry, if I require some babysitting!

> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 23:44:04 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 1116630] Re: System hangs at splash screen loading dots
> 
> Is this problem reproducible if you boot without the 'splash'
> commandline option - or if you boot in rescue mode?
> 
> If not, it will be nearly impossible to debug this.
> 
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> Title:
>   System hangs at splash screen loading dots
> 
> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
>   New
> 
> Bug description:
>   My system had been up and running without problems until I booted up about 5 days ago and the splash screen hung there with
>   the dots continuously loading. After 3 mins, I pressed (any)  key which booted me into my Ubunto 12.04. Three days ago the machine booted into black screen with boot up selection commands. That day I  filed a "me too" bug report for issue #531650. It looked like individual report would do be betterso here we go.  I am still pressing any key to get the  hanging loading dots in the splash screen to boot into the OS sign-in.
> 
>    Ubuntu is the only OS on my Dell OPTIPLEX 760. I'm just a Linux lover with no programing skills - who can figiure her way around 
>   hard or software enough to get by 89% of the time but I'm good at following directions when needed. I understand that apport
>   will collect the needed information. Thanks!
> 
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>   Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu31
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic 3.2.35
>   Uname: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
>   ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Date: Tue Feb  5 15:03:08 2013
>   DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
>   MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 760
>   MarkForUpload: True
>   ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-37-generic root=UUID=0e34b8b4-4129-462b-9c90-e861a7bac936 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>   ProcEnviron:
>    TERM=xterm
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
>   ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-37-generic root=UUID=0e34b8b4-4129-462b-9c90-e861a7bac936 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>   SourcePackage: plymouth
>   TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-07-17 (202 days ago)
>   dmi.bios.date: 12/23/2009
>   dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.bios.version: A06
>   dmi.board.name: 0M858N
>   dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.board.version: A01
>   dmi.chassis.type: 6
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd12/23/2009:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex760:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0M858N:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr:
>   dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 760
>   dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
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