Comment 170 for bug 204996

I updated my system yesterday and it seems that the ubuntu team must have solved the lockup issue since I have not had a lockup for over a day ... the problem now is that I have lost all usb functionality. The system does not find any usb device (flash drive, external hard drive, etc.) It doesn't even show up in /dev

when I do

cat /var/log/syslog

I get

...
May 4 21:41:26 rob-desktop kernel: [13067.344518] printk: 1 messages suppressed.
May 4 21:41:26 rob-desktop kernel: [13067.344524] hub 7-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
May 4 21:41:33 rob-desktop kernel: [13074.300333] printk: 2 messages suppressed.
May 4 21:41:33 rob-desktop kernel: [13074.300339] hub 7-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
May 4 21:41:37 rob-desktop kernel: [13078.910989] printk: 1 messages suppressed.
May 4 21:41:37 rob-desktop kernel: [13078.910995] hub 7-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
May 4 21:41:42 rob-desktop kernel: [13083.787938] printk: 1 messages suppressed.
May 4 21:41:42 rob-desktop kernel: [13083.787945] hub 7-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
May 4 21:41:47 rob-desktop kernel: [13088.734658] printk: 1 messages suppressed.
May 4 21:41:47 rob-desktop kernel: [13088.734665] hub 7-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
May 4 21:41:52 rob-desktop kernel: [13093.315552] printk: 1 messages suppressed.
May 4 21:41:52 rob-desktop kernel: [13093.315557] hub 7-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
May 4 21:41:56 rob-desktop kernel: [13098.021377] printk: 1 messages suppressed.
May 4 21:41:56 rob-desktop kernel: [13098.021382] hub 7-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
...

Did the kernel team by change disable usb capabilities as an effort to mitigate the lockup issue?