On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:42:35 -0700
"Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> dijo:

>My wife decided she'd like to know more about the hardware on her 
>machine without opening up the box. So we booted the Ubuntu 10.04 live 
>CD in try it out mode. I successfully ran lshw -html and saved the 
>output to the Ubuntu desktop. I then tried mounting her hard drive so
>I could put a copy of the html file there. The machine hung. I
>rebooted, ran lshw, and tried logging into my Comcast e-mail account
>through Firefox. I got as far as the Comcast page before logging in
>and the machine hung. I tried once more, this time trying to mount a
>drive on one of my running machines. My wife's machine hung. All we
>wanted was the model number of the mother board, which I wrote down
>during one of the attempts.
>
>Her machine booted back up in XP with no problems.
>
>Any ideas what would cause Ubuntu to hang in such a simple situation?

I'm going to the Ubuntu Release Party in a couple hours. You want I
should ask them?
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