PS: forgot to say I was able to get to a tty by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F1 and login from there. I could start my session with startx, but if I wanted to start lightdm from the tty it was just looking like it was started but nothing happened, just ended on the first screen of the unfinished boot, and coming back to tty1 then trying to "stop" lightdm or kill the pid that the "service lightdm start" command had returned as output, resulted in a message showing that lightdm had not been started at all.
-- 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
