Upgraded 12.04 to 14.04, splash gets stuck at "Restoring resolver state..."

I just upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 and i kept getting stuck at the splash screen. I turned off quiet splash and it seems to be hanging after "Restoring resolver state..."

The only solution I've been able to find is to re-install Ubuntu, but i really do not want to have to do that!

Any ideas?

I have still not solved this issue and it is quite frustrating. Is there something I can do to give more information?

I was having this problem on an HP Mini netebook when shutting down the system, if I hit Ctrl+Alt+F7 I would see:

restoring resolver state...

These steps cleared the issue:

sudo vi /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash acpi=force”
sudo update-grub

So basically edit the grub file to add the acpi=force at the end of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= command.

Okay I finally fixed it, here's what I did (I have an AMD gfx card):

1) Boot into GRUB and press E to edit the configuration for Ubuntu, add the word "text" after "quiet splash" then click Ctrl+X - this boots you into the command line.

2) Update - sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

3) Force removal of AMD drivers - /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh --force

4) Re-install drivers - sudo apt-get -f install