This bug also affects me, and I noticed one detail: While hanged I can continue boot if I issue a system wide sigterm (alt+sysrq+e). This probably closes usplash letting the system continue the boot process.
My system information: Laptop Dell Inspiron 1501 AMD Turion64X2 / ATI RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] -- System hangs during "quiet splash" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380347 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs