`initctl list | grep wait | sort ` on the affected machine, and comparing against a working (albeit running quantal) non-vm, i see a few interesting things.
present on the hanging machine: friendly-recovery stop/waiting kmod stop/waiting lightdm stop/waiting vmware-tools stop/waiting missing on the hanging machine: hybrid-gfx stop/waiting screen-cleanup stop/waiting -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061149 Title: boot occasionally hangs while "Checking battery state..." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1061149/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
