Ubuntu 18.04.2 unresponsive on hd activity

[nibbli at gmx.de]

Actually I had the issue on 18.10, so I installed 18.04 and have the same issue there. 

> On Feb 25, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> The OP does use 18.04. I'm an Arch Linux user, a rolling release close
> to upstream and just in case I hold in reserve an Ubuntu 16.04 long term
> support. However, to make backups of my Arch Linux and Ubuntu install
> I'm using one and the other live media. At the moment I tend to go with
> Xubuntu 18.10. Apart from two minor hickups, one related to screen
> locking and the other related to an archiver GUI (I'm anyway a command
> line guy), I didn't notice any issue. I'm just not upgrading 16.04
> because roxterm was dropped. Actually roxterm was dropped by upstream,
> so Ubuntu maintainers had a valid reason to discontinue packaging. In
> the meantime upstream started to continue roxterm. I can't imagine a
> live without roxterm :D and I dislike to make my own roxterm package.
> To make a long story short, if 18.04 fails in such an odd way, I
> recommend to use 18.10 for testing purpose and if necessary to
> downgrade to 16.04, which is supported until 2021. However, I agree
> that debugging the issue is important.
> 
> 
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