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I installed Ubuntu (from the 11.10 Alternate CD, selecting "command-line only" mode before installing) in Virtualbox (Mac OS X Lion host) like I've done numerous times before. Installation finished without any problems, and I rebooted into my new system. Got the splash screen, it loaded, and right where it should've given me a login prompt, I got (in orange) mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth. I can just hit control + alt (option) + F1 to get the login prompt on tty1, and the system acts normally. This happens on every boot.

The disk has two partitions, a 250 MB /boot partition and a 99.75 GB encrypted partition. The encrypted partition has LVM on it. One volume group, 3 volumes (swap, / (root filesystem) , and /home. At first I thought the error was from one of the LVM volumes not mounting, but they are all accessible. It isn't a critical error, but it is annoying. Any ideas?

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my guess is it's a problem related to trying to solve some gui problem or broken dependencies in the cli only install option. it seems to me that UI is getting an inordinate amount of focus in the latest releases. –  hbdgaf Feb 12 '12 at 6:20
@aking1012 Okay, it doesn't happen if a gui is installed, so you're probably right. I guess I'll just wait for the next LTS release and use that :) –  jonpavelich Feb 13 '12 at 0:57
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