Comment 2 for bug 995407

I just had to edit /etc/init/failsafe.conf to remove all the sleeps. Otherwise, my system will sometimes take an extra few minutes to boot, for no good reason.

My setup is a bit unusual, but not too bizarre. I have a router with a single ethernet connection which is connected to my main computer. I have a second network card which connects it to a second computer (used by my partner). I have a script that enables NAT forwarding to the 2nd computer (which itself isn't very user-friendly to configure, but that's a different story) but it doesn't play well with network-manager so I've uninstalled that latter and configured the network manually in /etc/network/interfaces.

Now I find that everthing works fine if I switch on both computers together, which is the usual case. However if I switch on mine only, it hangs in failsafe.conf. Editing failsafe.conf seemed like the best solution, but it's not very elegant.