I had this problem with kernels > 2.6.32-9-generic, and trying today after a bunch of updates my older kernels failed as well. After finding this bug report I removed the line in /etc/fstab and that fixed the issue. I never entered that line manually, I'm not sure what added it.
** Changed in: ubuntu Importance: Undecided => Medium -- Lucid alpha 2 fails to start up unless you remove /proc/bus/usb from the fstab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507881 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs