It’s very common on Ubuntu. Others on other systems have occasionally ran into the issue also. I know on Fedora Workstation 21 in Hyper-V, I had the issue. But with Fedora 21 Server in Hyper-V I don’t have the issue.
It’s just all about the timing, really.
And yes, that post you found is how you’d fix it.
And, there’s no reason to put up with having zero logs. Different systems experience different problems. For some, imaging doesn’t even work unless you make those services wait for a bit.