This has been happening to me off and on since the upgrade to
3.16.0-71-generic (64-bit).  70-generic would just randomly panic, so
until 71 came out I was running 69-generic.  71-generic seems to panic
sometimes when I plug in my Android phone, or when I dismount it -- but
it hasn't shown problems with my Cannon PowerShot S3IS (cameras are the
only "removable media" I've been using lately).

You may just want to run 69-generic.

Have you sent in a bug report?  (Have I sent in a bug report?  No, but
I think I should!)

On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 21:17 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> About a week ago I added a USB 3.0 external DVD drive to my laptop. It
> has been working fine. Today I disconnected it when I took the computer
> to the Clinic. Also, before going to the Clinic I installed all the
> recent updates for the OS (Xubuntu 14.04). There were a lot of updates,
> including a new kernel. The laptop functioned fine at the Clinic.
> 
> Back home I reconnected the new DVD drive, and used it to rip and encode
> a DVD from my collection. This went perfectly. Then I started to rip
> and encode a second DVD, but this one hung at 85%, probably due to the
> media being scratched. I was encoding with Handbrake, so I stopped the
> encoding, but Handbrake would not stop. This has been a bug in
> Handbrake for a long time, although the upgrades I did this morning
> included a new version. In the past I could simply kill Handbrake, then
> manually eject the DVD. When I did so this time the computer hung - no
> keyboard, no mouse. (No I don't have a way to SSH into it.) 
> 
> I powered down and restarted it, then I cleaned the DVD media and tried
> again. And once again, Handbrake hung on about 85%. I killed Handbrake
> again, but this time the DVD light was still flickering. So I pressed
> the eject button several times, and was suddenly greeted with a black
> screen full of unintelligible command-line type text, and two lights
> were flashing (hard drive and numlock? - can't remember which is
> which). 
> 
> Again, I rebooted and everything is fine. 
> 
> This happened to me once a number of years ago and I was told that
> flashing lights mean a kernel panic. Beyond that I know nothing. 
> 
> I need suggestions.
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