User Profile Service got stuck on Starting

I have installed the Dec 2011 CU and User Profile Service was stopped working (Known issue) after the upgrade, I have followed the below steps to enable the User profile service back

1. Restarted the timer service
2. added the farm admin account to local administrators on windows server
3. started the User profile Synchronization service from the Central Admin
4. Once it started then deleted the farm admin account from the local administrators group on windows server
5. IISRESET

The above steps fixed the problem for me.