[16:33] <GrueMaster> cjwatson: I have narrowed down the issue a little inoem-config on 12.04.3.  It is not related to plymouth.  Also, since this system already has an account created, if I log into a different console and stop oem-config, I can restart it and it works fine.
[16:45] <GrueMaster> I'll do more digging, but I think it may be that oem-config is launching without proper locale settings, or the locale settings defined in the system are conflicting in some way.