Comment 15 for bug 592114

We have a mix environment of Debian and Ubuntu and we use puppet for configuration management. One of our recipes for Debian include console-tools as a dependency. We reused that recipe in some of ours Ubuntu Lucid 64 bit servers until we discovered that a group of services did not start at boot time including Cron. Looking at /var/log/boot.log we found rare characters just after the message of console-setup. We just assumed it was breaking upstart. We didn't have to much time to research further in the problem so we change console-tools for kbd in the Ubuntu recipes and Voila! problem solved.

Unfortunately we still don't have to much time, but I think you can easily reproduce the bug
just install console-tools package.