I don't believe this is a duplicate of #869635 at all.
On my son's computer (running Precise Pangolin) I have seen this behaviour since I added an NFS mounted filesystem into /etc/fstab, and it was resolved by the link changes suggested by the original reporter.
In bug #869635 it talks about "taking a very long time", whereas this bug report talks about "forever", and "forever" certainly seems to be the behaviour I have seen (well, OK, I only waited for 12 hours :-)
I don't believe this is a duplicate of #869635 at all.
On my son's computer (running Precise Pangolin) I have seen this behaviour since I added an NFS mounted filesystem into /etc/fstab, and it was resolved by the link changes suggested by the original reporter.
In bug #869635 it talks about "taking a very long time", whereas this bug report talks about "forever", and "forever" certainly seems to be the behaviour I have seen (well, OK, I only waited for 12 hours :-)