[Bug 1061149] Re: boot occasionally hangs while "Checking battery state..."

[Joseph Salisbury]

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel?  Refer
to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest
v3.6 kernel[0] (Not a kernel in the daily directory) and install both
the linux-image and linux-image-extra .deb packages.

Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-
upstream-testing' tag.  Please only remove that one tag and leave the
other tags. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next
to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the
'needs-upstream-testing' text.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following
tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag:
'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.  
Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".


Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.6-quantal/


** Tags added: kernel-da-key needs-upstream-testing

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  boot occasionally hangs while "Checking battery state..."

Status in “acpi-support” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “pm-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a bit of an odd environment, but I've recently noticed that
  boot will occasionally hang just after "Checking battery state...".  I
  don't know for sure it's /etc/acpi/power.sh that's hanging, but that
  seems like the most likely culprit.

  This is an up-to-date 12.10 guest running in VMware Fusion 5.0.1
  (825449) on OS X 10.6.8.  I've disabled the splash screen so I can
  watch the boot process.  ctrl-C (and other keystrokes) seems to be
  echoed back to the console, but has no effect.

  When I send ctrl-alt-delete (via the VMware "Virtual Machine" menu
  item), I see "acpid exiting" and the machine shuts down and reboots.
  It usually successfully reboots after this, but not always.

  I suppose not surprisingly, this seems related to power status pass-
  through.   If you go to VMware's settings->Other->Advanced and turn
  off "Pass power status to VM" then it seems like boot never hangs.
  Note though that I have had this setting enabled for ages, and
  enabling doesn't guarantee that the boot will hang.  But it never
  seems to hang with the setting disabled.

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