Mouse no longer functions reliably after latest update

[Bill Farina]

After installing the latest update, my mouse started misbehaving. It stops working after a short period of time. I unplug the usb plug and plug back in and the mouse will sometimes work for a few minutes, sometimes not at all. I both tried the mouse on a different computer where it worked and used a different mouse on the Ubuntu machine where the same issue re-occured.

Thank you,

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-53.59-generic 5.4.65
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-53-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.11
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Nov 13 01:47:21 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-09 (1100 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-10-01 (42 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Bill Farina (bfarina)]

One other thing that I've noticed is that the mouse pointer gets really laggy and sort of spastic when it passes over an open window. It's when it's being laggy that it seems to crash and disappear.

[Bill Farina (bfarina)]

This is a cut-and-paste of the syslog from the time that I plug the USB mouse in to the point that it crashes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.