Oh, I should mention that the system is not locked when this occurs, it's just waiting for some event that never comes. If I press CTL-ALT- DEL, the boot process continues, but the system is badly handicapped by read-only filesystems, and other problems (I think).
** Attachment added: "dmesg log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6767970/dmesg.txt -- irqpoll required on Intel ICH5/SATA https://launchpad.net/bugs/91820 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
