I've noticed similar behavior. In my case, pressing any key on the keyboard (ex. Shift) causes the boot sequence to continue. You can see the system hang below between timestamps 4.274018 and 250.427922.
[ 3.470626] usb 2-2.1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 3.474531] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 3.475039] scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 3.475144] usb-storage: device found at 4 [ 3.475145] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 3.475148] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 3.475188] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 3.510550] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode [ 4.110316] Adding 9764856k swap on /dev/sdc5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:9764856k [ 4.197323] udev: starting version 151 [ 4.223991] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 [ 4.274018] udev: renamed network interface eth1_rename to eth0 [ 250.427922] usb-storage: device scan complete [ 250.431892] scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic Flash HS-CF 5.39 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 250.435036] scsi 14:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic Flash HS-COMBO 5.39 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 250.435371] sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0 [ 250.435466] sd 14:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 [ 250.463939] sd 14:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 250.467900] sd 14:0:0:1: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 250.858379] vga16fb: initializing [ 250.858382] vga16fb: mapped to 0xffff8800000a0000 [ 250.858502] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device -- Ubuntu 10.04 : System hangs after SCSI probing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
