Hi, It just happened to me in a custom version of **Ubuntu 12.04**, which has been working fine for months. After several hours seeking for fixes on the forums, and eliminating one after one a few warnings and error messages I finally had only one message left on the screen before the boot stalls: "stopping system v runlevel compatibility checking battery state".
Having tried to switch to gdm worked but I could not be satisfied with this solution because in a pure Openbox Ubuntu setup I could not find one good method to setup a background for gdm. :) I can't say how many things I tried, boot after boot into the recovery boot and selecting the root console to install/uninstall/reinstall, change kernel... reboot again to see some progress... but still no lightdm login screen, no boot to X! The fix has been reverting from liblightdm-gobject-1-0 (1.2.3-0ubuntu2.3) and lightdm (1.2.3-0ubuntu2.3) to their former versions by recreating both packages with the help of the dpkg-repack tool, in another install of mine where I had not yet updated (the command as root is very simple : "dpkg-repack <package_name>"), and do: sudo dpkg -i liblightdm-gobject-1-0_1.2.3-0ubuntu2.2_i386.deb lightdm_1.2.3-0ubuntu2.2_i386.deb I put the packages here to have them always at hand in the following days: http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/BentoVillageProject/Paquets-dpkg-repack I hope this regression will be fixed soon! Regards, Mélodie -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/834592 Title: System hangs during boot with "Checking battery state" on screen Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After some digging it appears that lightdm isn't starting properly. One fix appears to be Ctrl+Alt+F1,user and password and startx but I fixed it by switching to using GDM - sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow gdm. This happened after I ran updates on Wednesday of this week. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/834592/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
