Comment 0 for bug 1061149

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.