Hangs on boot at "* Checking battery state..." on ATI graphics

[Bearing]

Upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 functioned properly in terms of downloading packages and installing them. But upon reboot the GNOME desktop progress bar completes, then halts with the above message.

[Micke Persson (mickep)]

This happens to me aswell. I upgraded from 8.10 alpha5 to 8.10 beta. It happens about 50% of the times I start the computer. I only have to hit enter to pass by it, but if I don't it seems it never passes that "Checking battery state..."

[tbresson (tbresson)]

I have the same error after making a clean install.

Accordring to the forums it's probably related to the restricted ATI/AMD driver.
Using Enter to continue doesn't work for me though.

[tbresson (tbresson)]

I reinstalled the OS and didn't install the restricted ATI driver and now there's no problem.

[Russ (rfraxford)]

I use a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop with Intel dual processor and ATI graphics. I cannot get the live cd to boot, it stalls at "checking battery state". Upgrading 8.04 produced a whole series of problems, eventually stalling at the same point. Installing with the alternate disk, the same. Am I never going to be able to upgrade to 8.10?

[amcecil (amcecil)]

i'm on an asus f8p (radeon hd2400) and when i try to use ubuntu 8.10 it gives me the same "checking battery state" stall. i have tried everything i could find but nothing works.

[Russ (rfraxford)]

Hi,
I haven't tried this but have a look at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683&highlight=Comprehensive+Multimedia+Video+Howtoon
the Ubuntu forums. The relevant section is at the beginning of section
5/5. I'm not sure how to use this when the live cd gets stuck at this point.
Russ

2008/11/17 amcecil <email address hidden>

> i'm on an asus f8p (radeon hd2400) and when i try to use ubuntu 8.10 it
> gives me the same "checking battery state" stall. i have tried
> everything i could find but nothing works.
>
> --
> Hangs on boot at "* Checking battery state..."
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277587
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 functioned properly in terms of downloading
> packages and installing them. But upon reboot the GNOME desktop progress
> bar completes, then halts with the above message.
>

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[amcecil (amcecil)]

my hardrive was fried and that was the issue.
ubuntu working great now.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Dimitrios Symeonidis <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => linux
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Hangs on boot at "* Checking battery state..."
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277587
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 functioned properly in terms of downloading
> packages and installing them. But upon reboot the GNOME desktop progress
> bar completes, then halts with the above message.
>

[Russ (rfraxford)]

I have tried recently with the latest version of Mintlinux with the same result. I am now waiting for the release of 9.04 and hoping that this will have corrected the problem. The cause seems to be the inability of 8.10 to recognise my screen resolution of 1440x900. If 9.04 has the same problem I shall reluctantly switch to a different distributon. The latest Suse and Fedora give no problems.

[marco_ask (marco-assini)]

On my laptop the problem come out every time I update my kernel. Still the same problem with the latest.
9.04 is expected in April 2009. Such a ling time to (try to) resolve this bug?

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

when you say "the system hangs", do you mean it never finishes loading, or that it stalls there for a long time... do you actually ever arrive at the gnome desktop?

can you please attach the output of dmesg? if you could install bootchart and attach a graph, that would also be helpful...

[marco_ask (marco-assini)]

when I say "the system hangs", I mean that after typing my user name and password to log in, the system partially reboot, and re-ask me user name and password... And so loop.
I arrive at the Gnome Desktop choosing "recovery mode" at the grub and by root shell modifying 2 files in /etc/pam.d

I don't konw how to get the output of dmesg and the graph you ask for... Sorry

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

just type "dmesg > dmesg.log" in a terminal, then attach here the dmesg.log file...

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

This bug report is a real mess. Trying to put some order:
1) andrew-prestridge (the original reporter) and mickep never reported back
2) trbesson fixed it by removing the fglrx (proprietary ATI driver)
3) rfraxford has ATI graphics and is trying LinuxMint
4) amcecil has the radeon hd2400, after re-installing the problem disappeared
5) marco-assini's system restarts after logging in

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

changing assignment to the xserver-xorg-video-ati package...

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

rfraxford and marco-assini, you are the only two people on this bug who still have this problem...
could you attach here the following, please?
1) "lspci -vvnn > lspci.log" (attach the lspci.log file)
2) /etc/X11/xorg.conf
3) /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(marco-assini, ignore the previous request for dmesg.log)

Also, both of you, please try booting with an empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf file...

In general, have a look at this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging

[Micke Persson (mickep)]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Dimitrios Symeonidis <email address hidden> wrote:
> This bug report is a real mess. Trying to put some order:
> 1) andrew-prestridge (the original reporter) and mickep never reported back
> 2) trbesson fixed it by removing the fglrx (proprietary ATI driver)
> 3) rfraxford has ATI graphics and is trying LinuxMint
> 4) amcecil has the radeon hd2400, after re-installing the problem disappeared
> 5) marco-assini's system restarts after logging in
>
> --
> Hangs on boot at "* Checking battery state..." on ATI graphics
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277587
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Dear Dimitrios, and others

I am sorry for not reporting back. I have not seen this problem for
some time now. The problem here was: At the end of the booting (right
before X should be started), the system got off the "graphical bootup"
and I got this message "Checking battery state...". Here, it did not
really hang, but if I hit any key, it just continued to boot and
everything was fine. However, if I did not hit any key it stopped at
this message.

This did not happen at every bootup, but seemingly randomly.

Since I dont see this bug no more, I cannot help any further in giving
a dmesg output. What I can say is that I have Intel graphics, and not
ATI.

Best regards, Mikael

[Caysho (caysho)]

I see this with an nvidia 8400GS card on an Asus P5QL-E board.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6777316
I thought it was the nvidia (173, 177 and 180) driver breaking, but I'm beginning to think it's hardware.

[Caysho (caysho)]

Attaching logs in case they are useful

[Caysho (caysho)]

Note that I had to switch the driver from nvidia to nv in order to properly boot this box to post these logs.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

caysho, please file another bug report. thank you

[Caysho (caysho)]

Bug 333048 filed.

[Russ (rfraxford)]

I cannot post any logs as I cannot boot from the live cd. The load stops
with the checking battery state message. If I try 'loadx' I get 'no screens
detected'. I have downloaded the alpha for 9.04 and this loads with
absolutely no problem.

2009/2/21 Micke Persson <email address hidden>

> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Dimitrios Symeonidis <email address hidden>
> wrote:
> > This bug report is a real mess. Trying to put some order:
> > 1) andrew-prestridge (the original reporter) and mickep never reported
> back
> > 2) trbesson fixed it by removing the fglrx (proprietary ATI driver)
> > 3) rfraxford has ATI graphics and is trying LinuxMint
> > 4) amcecil has the radeon hd2400, after re-installing the problem
> disappeared
> > 5) marco-assini's system restarts after logging in
> >
> > --
> > Hangs on boot at "* Checking battery state..." on ATI graphics
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277587
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>
> Dear Dimitrios, and others
>
> I am sorry for not reporting back. I have not seen this problem for
> some time now. The problem here was: At the end of the booting (right
> before X should be started), the system got off the "graphical bootup"
> and I got this message "Checking battery state...". Here, it did not
> really hang, but if I hit any key, it just continued to boot and
> everything was fine. However, if I did not hit any key it stopped at
> this message.
>
> This did not happen at every bootup, but seemingly randomly.
>
> Since I dont see this bug no more, I cannot help any further in giving
> a dmesg output. What I can say is that I have Intel graphics, and not
> ATI.
>
> Best regards, Mikael
>
> --
> Hangs on boot at "* Checking battery state..." on ATI graphics
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277587
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-ati” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 functioned properly in terms of downloading
> packages and installing them. But upon reboot the GNOME desktop progress
> bar completes, then halts with the above message.
>

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Russ, good to hear that the issue for you is solved with jaunty.

Hanging at the "Check battery state" message is a generic symptom that can be caused by a variety of very different kinds of bugs. Judging from the comments so far, it sounds like several people sorted them out as being due to one thing or another (e.g. having had -fglrx installed).

If anyone is still having this issue when trying to boot on jaunty, please file a NEW bug. We really need to have the log files and other information in order to conduct troubleshooting of these bugs. With a LiveCD, obviously this can be difficult, but the trick is to either switch to a console (ctrl+alt+f3) or boot into recovery mode to a console prompt. Then you can collect 'lspci -vvnn>lspci-vvnn.txt', /var/log/Xorg.0.log, /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old, and /var/log/gdm/* to a usb key or copying them across the network to another machine.

To get your system up, often you can switch to the vesa driver. For more information on doing this, and troubleshooting this kind of issue in general, please see the documentation at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/. The config and troubleshooting guides can be of use here, in particular.

[marco_ask (marco-assini)]

with /etc/pam.d/common-auth and common-password attached the system works properly

[nick-c (nick-cavender)]

Just to report that I am having the same problem as Russ above. Trying to boot into Ubuntu 8.10 from disc it hangs at the "checking battery state" message and does nothing further. (Will investigate further, as new to Linux.)

[marco_ask (marco-assini)]

with Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-13-generic no longer this problem.