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

[Christopher M. Penalver]

** No longer affects: acpi-support (Ubuntu)

** No longer affects: pm-utils (Ubuntu)

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

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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  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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