Boot stops at "Checking battery state"

[Jani Monoses]

>
> I have installed xubuntu on two different machines, with considerably
> different hardwre. On both the boot splash stops at "Checking Battery
> State". The only way I can boot is to boot failsafe to root and startx
> as root. I have tried modifying grub by adding noapic and nolapic but
> that did not help. Any ideas appreciated.
>

Maybe you can just remove /etc/init.d/acpi-support from the list of services
started.
Or see why /etc/acpi/power.sh which is called by the former is hanging.Could
it be the calling of laptop-mode or hdparm from this script?

HTH
Jani
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