This deserves more investigation. Marking Confirmed and setting Importance to High, as it prevents normal boot up.
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587079 Title: init: Failed to spawn rc-sysinit main process: unable to open console: Input/output error. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs