Thanks for reply Dave. There are no devices plugged into any USB port (apart from the mouse) although the effect did seem to first arise when I was using a USB stick some while ago. I have run 'lsusb' in a terminal and the results are as below:
da...@djb-p4:~$ lsusb Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0461:4d01 Primax Electronics, Ltd Comfort Keyboard Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0151 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub da...@djb-p4:~$ Thanks for your help David Bowskill On 06/10/10 00:07, David Fawcett wrote: > Hey Dave, > > Do you have an external USB hard drive plugged into the machine? > > If so can you try unplugging it and rebooting to see if it still > starts up slowly? > > If not can you please open the termal and type: lsusb > > And please copy and paste the results? > > On 5 October 2010 23:44, David Bowskill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Fellow Ubuntu Users >> >> For some strange reason my Ubuntu 10.04 has suddenly become very slow to >> boot. >> I tried to repair the system at boot ( pressing escape) and then >> selected 'repair broken packages'. >> >> I have tried the above several times but still keep getting error >> messages as follows: >> >> usb 1-4 device descriptor read/64, error -110 >> unable to enumerate usb device on port 4 >> unable to enumerate usb device on port 5 >> >> It also thinks that there is a program still running, although it has >> started from cold. >> >> Can anyone tell me what these mean and how I can fix them ? >> >> Thanks very much >> >> David >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-au mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >> >> > > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
