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

[Barry Warsaw]

Testing with the upstream 3.6 kernel still hangs the boot, but in a
different place.  It freezes after this line:

* Starting VMware Tools services  [fail]

(The failure isn't surprising because I didn't reinstall vmware-tools
after the kernel upgrade.)

After sending ctrl-alt-del to the VM, I see this message:

acpid: exiting

then the VM shutsdown and restarts.  However, on subsequent restart, I
see the freeze after "Checking battery state..." again.


** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream

** Tags added: apport-collected quantal running-unity

** Description changed:

  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.
+ 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.
+ --- 
+ ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
+ Architecture: amd64
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
+ InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120709.1)
+ Package: pm-utils
+ PackageArchitecture: amd64
+ ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
+ Tags:  quantal running-unity
+ Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
+ UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
+ UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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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:
  Confirmed
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.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120709.1)
  Package: pm-utils
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Tags:  quantal running-unity
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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