USB ports do not work after booting (ie USB mouse works)

[Frostybeard]

Binary package hint: usbutils

USB basically does not work at all after initial boot phase. My USB mouse which is connected during boot is functional.

lsusb hangs

USB devices are not mounted. This includes memory card readers, digital cameras, mouse.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 7 08:13:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: usbutils 0.82-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: usbutils
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2439): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed