I got the dreaded "Checking Battery State"

[Kenter]

Hello all,

I used the code off the kubuntu website to install Intrepid over Hardy and it took all day I got home from work and it said to restart computer to use 8.10. So I did but now I get a system hang at Checking Battery State [ok]. I tried searching these forums but to no avail. I'm running a Compaq 1500 machine, with a ATI Graphics card.
-Kent

[Kenter]

Re: I got the dreaded "Checking Battery State"

Ok now I've got something new. Now it says:

Starting up ...
Loading, please wait...
19+0 records in
19+0 records out
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/7ca9eaaf-1898-409b-a7c6-4ba0cba8e807) = dev(8,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/7ca9eaaf-1898-409b-a7c6-4ba0cba8e807
kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot...

Ubuntu 8.10 GW(my comp's name) tty1

GW login: _

And that's where I'm at!

[yulester]

Re: I got the dreaded "Checking Battery State"

Sounds like a possible graphics card problem. After a command line login, do a "DMESG" and scroll through list.

[arochester]

Re: I got the dreaded "Checking Battery State"

Hi Kent

I assume it is a Presario 1500 rather than an Amada 1500... Sign on in text mode using your username and password.

If you look at http://aparateys.blogspot.com/2007/0...y-fawn-on.html you will see that he started with a blank screen. He was installing 7.04 Feisty rather than 8.10 Intrepid. His solution then was to press "crtl-alt-f2" and run the command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

I'm not sure that sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg is still the favoured option - it might have been replaced by booting into Recovery and using the option "Try to recover XServer". How that goes if you have never had Xserver I'm not sure

I would propose a three part (somewhat experimental) approach

1) Make sure you have all available packages by running:

sudo apt-get update

then

sudo apt-get upgrade

and finally

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2) Then I would try booting into the Recovey kernel and taking the option "Try to recover XServer"

3) And finally try sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

If all is well and it starts up make sure that the ATI card is available and enabled in Hardware Manager ... then... reboot.

Alan

[e4kuber]

Re: I got the dreaded "Checking Battery State"

I am having the exact same problem.
I tried the three step approch to no aval.
Still stuck. I have 2 nvidia 8600gt video cards.
This is after a clean install of 8.10.
I have no idea?

[Guest]

Re: I got the dreaded "Checking Battery State"

Hello all,

I used the code off the kubuntu website to install Intrepid over Hardy and it took all day I got home from work and it said to restart computer to use 8.10. So I did but now I get a system hang at Checking Battery State [ok]. I tried searching these forums but to no avail. I'm running a Compaq 1500 machine, with a ATI Graphics card.
-Kent

I also got the same error. My machine is custom built, but I kind of fixed the issue. I opened the box and drained the BIOS by removing the BIOS battery for a minute or two. Put it back together and every thing has been working for the last week or so with no problems.

-Scott-