Comment 111 for bug 544139

I've repeated the tests with Lennies ppa (0.4.1-3ubuntu1-lbesselink7)

In 9/10 reboots this is my syslog:
grep console /var/log/syslog | grep -v VT_WAITACTIVE
Sep 1 19:00:26 st-002 rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Sep 1 19:00:26 st-002 kernel: [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
Sep 1 19:00:26 st-002 init: Failed to open system console: Input/output error
Sep 1 19:00:30 st-002 console-kit-daemon[1364]: WARNING: did not fail
Sep 1 19:00:30 st-002 console-kit-daemon[1364]: WARNING: skipping: 7

in 1/10 reboot this is my syslog:
grep console /var/log/syslog_20100901_9 | grep -v VT_WAITACTIVE
Sep 1 18:58:08 st-002 rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Sep 1 18:58:08 st-002 kernel: [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
Sep 1 18:58:09 st-002 console-kit-daemon[1147]: WARNING: did not fail
Sep 1 18:58:09 st-002 console-kit-daemon[1147]: WARNING: skipping: 1
Sep 1 18:58:09 st-002 console-kit-daemon[1147]: WARNING: skipping: 7

In all 10/10 reboots I have no symptoms as I've got with the original stock Lucid package (missing external drives etc.).
I do not understand how "init: Failed to open system console: Input/output error" is related.