Try pressing the escape key when booting and see if any messages that look relevant appear. Ideally, you should boot by removing "quiet" and "splash" from the kernel command-line.
It would be useful to see your /etc/fstab file if you can attach it too. What happens if you boot the machine normally, login, and then plug your phone in? Is it mounted as a USB disk? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1078525 Title: Boot process grinds to a halt when smartphone is plugged in USB To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1078525/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
