Comment 1680 for bug 1

In addition to comment 1647 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1647 ) I'd like to shed some additional light that may help in debugging: http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/140 .

From my personal experience, I have seen similar things happening with the whole bunch of linux kernel USB 2.0 problems -- see e.g. comment 594 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88746/comments/594 ) for bug 88746 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88746 ) .

Please note that this comment was added more than three years after the initial bug was filed!
( After living for several years with this bug, and a lot of digging, I have finally realized how complex the situation was, and for me it seems to have almost gone -- two more years later and with a backported kernel, but from a new user's point of view -- no one even have _tried_ to explain all the difficulties and intrinsic details for USB 2.0 support in the linux kernel! All we've got from Canonical was "declined / won't fix" )

As a more general thing -- if then, back in the times of 7.10, the installation procedure for Ubuntu to an average computer looked like "click a few times" -- then around 9.04 it was more like "click a few times and then fix one or two minor things".
Now it is a nightmare ( "plug and pray", "and prepare to spend from days to weeks on the forums, digging into the problem(s), testing patches, etc" ).
I have stopped even trying anything but LTS releases long ago, and still wait for every next upgrade with fear and trembling.

To conclude, Ubuntu is (imho) still the best linux for desktop, but with growing number of features etc, it's getting less and less stable, and without admitting that I doubt that this bug would ever be fixed.

PS. Got multiple "timeout errors" while trying to submit this comment.