<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Robin, for what it's worth, I also did the recent updates running on Ubuntu 12.04, my Libre office seems fine. My USB external hard drive is also working fine. Somebody more au fait than I might be able to comment as to whether the problem is not related to the updates and if so, what the cause might be. Jan <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> </pre> On 20/05/2013 22:35, Robin Bownes wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:519A8915.1000002@bownes.co.za" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> Hi All, I'm running 3 computers, each with a different version of Ubuntu - namely 12.04, 12.10 & 13.04. While in the past, I've experienced a problem here and there on a specific version after an update, this is the first time that I'm experiencing the same problems across the board on all 3 machines. This would seem to indicate that there's something fundamentally wrong somewhere. The problems are: <ol> <li>Nautilus hangs in the middle of copying/moving files to/from either USB drives or over my LAN. Copying just stops, and the only way to get rid of the copy dialogue is to restart the PC. No error message, nothing - just stops.</li> <li>Libre Office (running different versions on all these machines) hanging at increasingly shortening intervals, until it becomes unusable. The only way to get Libre Office to load again after a hangup, is to restart the machine. Sometimes even that doesn't work.</li> </ol> Is anybody else experiencing any of this? As I say, if it was just one machine, I'd blame the machine, but its all 3, and all 3 Ubuntu versions, and all began directly after the last major update a few days ago. Any assistance welcome. Thanks. <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>