On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:34:21PM +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote: > When you say "remove baldaemon" will checkconfig --level 345 haldaemon > off suffice? Yes, and then kill the running one and or reboot. In most cases service haldaemon stop investigate service haldaemon start > hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) > ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out > hdc: lost interrupt > hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) Can you send me (privately) the lspci for your box, the boot messages and the fail log from /var/log/messages so it has timestamps ? Alan