I've tested using the fstab entry from comment #3 and cannot reproduce this issue in precise. This is with the cgroup-lite package installed, and cgroup still gets mounted on /var/cgroup. Do you have a large number of other filesystems listed in your /etc/fstab? Perhaps this is a race condition.
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