Ok, so something is seriously going on. Like forward/reverse DNS lookup is failing, failure to connect to the DB (username/password/DB name resolution). There is some basic requirement not being met.
cd $VCLOUD_HOME/logs
egrep "\| ERROR" vcloud-container-debug.log
See if there are any error states in the log file. If the log file itself doesn't exist or is 0 bytes, then vCD can't start for some critical requirement failure.