Comment 24 for bug 277587

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
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> > 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
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> 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.
>