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"Myriad Apple", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am
ru</font></font>nning Ubuntu Studio 12.04 on my PC which I
built myself. I recently upgraded some of the hardware, including
the CPU, RAM and motherboard. I am using the same hard drives and
the same installation of Ubuntu Studio.<br>
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When I boot up and if I press ESC during the splash text to see
what is going on (such as when it is doing disk checks), I see a
constantly-repeated error message as follows:<br>
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[first some changing numbers] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB
device on port 2<br>
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and the same line appears below but the first number is 5 instead
of 2, i.e. hub 5-0:1.0:<br>
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Today I am finding after logging into Ubuntu, that Firefox is
working okay and then suddenly it freezes when opening a new tab,
and then the whole PC goes very slow and is unresponsive. Pressing
ALT SysRq REISUB does nothing. Other programs were running as
well, and when it happens the RAM usage goes to maximum (8 GB
installed) and the CPUs get busier (8-core 4 GHz).<br>
The first time it happened I had to do a hard reboot.<br>
The second time it happened the PC was still responding, but only
just. I pressed CTRL ALT F1 to get into a console, but that was
showing the hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
message again repeatedly, making it impossible to log in.<br>
Going back to the GUI via CTRL ALT F7 I then managed to close each
window and reboot.<br>
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So is the USB device error something that could be causing it to
go slow? Or is it more likely to be a problem with Firefox or one
of its extensions? Or a problem with Ubuntu Studio? I plan to
upgrade the new LTS when it comes out in April or whenever.<br>
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When everything works it works well, with the faster CPU than
before it never goes slow, normally. I can have various programs
open and lots of tabs open in Firefox and it handles it smoothly.<br>
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So how do I fix this, and get rid of that USB device error and
with the PC running normally without freezing?<br>
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David King<br>
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