On 10/22/2011 02:50 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> 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?

Sure.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens


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