On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:38:32PM +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote: > When I put a CD in the drive, and try to access it I get the following > messages in dmesg before what appears to be a fairly solid lockup (but > it could just be the system being tied up for a long time on IO waits). Boot single user, remove haldaemon, reboot. Let me know if that helps (if I've asked you specifically this already ignore me)