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

[Joseph Salisbury]

I'd like to perform a bisect to figure out what commit caused this
regression. It would be very helpful to know the earliest kernel where
the issue started happening as well as the latest kernel that did not
have this issue.

Can you test the following kernels and report back?  We are looking for
the first kernel version that doesn't have this bug:

3.5 final: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.5-quantal/
3.5.1: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.5.1-quantal/
3.5.3: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.5.3-quantal/
3.5.5: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.5.5-quantal/

You don't have to test every kernel, just up until the kernel that first
has this bug.  If the 3.5 final kernel has the bug, then we would need
to test some of the earlier release candidates.

Thanks in advance!

** Tags added: performing-bisect

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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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