cannot start ubuntu 11.10, dektop hangs on battery check state

[Pit(er) Ralon]

After network update on july 27 2011 destop dont start ubuntu. system stopped at message "battery check state". After trying to fix the problem withreboot and root shell (network support and without, update etc.) system hangs still at the message " battery check state"

[Michael (mdferrier)]

Same problem here. Booted to command line, installed gdm and ran it to temporarily get around this problem. Was able to get to a login screen, login and use ubuntu but in a semi-usable state.

[yurik81 (yurik81)]

Same there in VirtualBox.

[Guy Stone (stoneguy3)]

Same problem here on ASUS eeePC900. This is a machine that can't run unity (GMA900, Celeron 900)

With eternal monitor plugged in, after ctl-alt-F1 to terminal and typing in startx, error box with "failed to load session gnome" and logout button shows.

Disconnecting external monitor, X-server tries to start but gets into "no protocol specified" loop.

Rebooting and attempting the fix specified in Launchpad 804171 resulted in
    liblightdm-gobject-1-0_0.9.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
and
    lightdm-gtk-greeter_0.9.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
not found in ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lightdm

[Michael (mdferrier)]

Appears to be fixed for me after the latest updates as of July 27, 2011 6pm PST. LightDM appears to be working again. Noticed it was one of the updates that was installed.

[Guy Stone (stoneguy3)]

Xorg logfile for #3

[Guy Stone (stoneguy3)]

** WORKAROUND ** (based on #4)

Go into VT1, su to root

Changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to main repositories (mine were Canada)

   apt-get install lightdm

Reboot

run Update Manager normally

Reboot

NOTES:
1. batt ind now shows empty
2. gets update-apt-xapian-index crash after desktop starts (see #817370)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 816646, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.