It does eventually boot for me, but my monitor displays an "out of range" error while usplash is up (rather than just a blank screen); if I didn't know better I would certainly think it had crashed. I think this is near enough to confirmation.
** Changed in: kubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- amd64 usplash boot broken https://launchpad.net/bugs/66815 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs