USB devices cause system crash

[ChrisN_uk]

I've recently upgraded to 8.10 and now inserting various usb devices causes my system to crash completely (I had no problems before the upgrade). USB flash drives work fine but my wireless card (belkin F5D7051 usb) and iriver x20 music player both cause the crash.

Expected behaviour: USB devices work fine
Observed behaviour: USB devises cause total system crash (shutdown/reboot)

The same behaviour occurs if I try to boot ubuntu with either device plugged in; the system shuts down/reboots at the stage "loading hardware drivers".

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

ChrisN_uk,
     Can you confirm this issue exists with the most recent Karmic Koala 9.10 Alpha release? ISO CD images are available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/ . If the issue remains with Karmic it would be great to then also test the latest upstream mainline kernel available. This will allow additional upstream developers to examine this issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds .

Thanks in advance.

-JFo

[ChrisN_uk (chris-nicholls)]

Good news -- it seems to be fine!

Thanks,

Chris

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

ChrisN_uk,
       That is great news!

-JFo

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

I've adjusted the status to Fix Released since this is fixed in the current version.

-JFo