Sounds like this might be a "chicken-and-egg" issue where Upstart wants a pty, but pty support isn't yet available (/dev/pts not mounted) as the mountall job hasn't yet run. This being a side-effect of having no initramfs since /dev/pts is normally mounted from there.
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