usb does not recognize peripherals

[Brandon Williams]

USB ports quit recognizing all peripherals, but they used to recognize them. I was always careful to safely remove my hardware.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 31 19:28:22 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-23 (38 days ago)

[Brandon Williams (corvus120)]

this was right after the Natty upgrade.