Comment 8 for bug 444362

I also see the llist of post-kernel messages, which do come from sysvinit scripts:

 * Setting preliminary keymap...
 * Preparing restricted drivers...
 * Starting early crypto disks...
 * Starting remaining crypto disks...
 * Starting AppArmor profiles
 * Setting up console font and keymap...
 * Starting init crypto disks...
 * sda5_crypt (running)...

This looks like a bug in either lsb-base (which provides the common log functions these scripts are all calling), or in upstart (for not setting up the expected environment for these scripts). I'll have a look.