It turns out there was a physical defect in the USB drive, which happened to manifest just after I applied the HAL update. Bad luck, but it happens sometimes. So this bug report should be cancelled, marked as closed, etc.
-- Today's (Feb 18, 2009) Ubuntu 8.10 HAL update may fry the SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330840 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
