cdrom disappearing

[Derek Broughton]

Luca Ferrari wrote:

> On Monday 7 January 2008 Derek Broughton's cat, walking on the keyboard,
> wrote:
>>
>> # sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
>>
>> and see if hal finds it the next time it runs.  You should copy the
>> output of "lsmod" while the device is missing, and compare it to the
>> output from lsmod when the device is present, and see what modules are
>> missing.
> 
> It worked fine for a few days, and today the cdrom disappeared again. I've
> tried to restart dbus but nothing changed. The following is the lsmod
> output while the cdrom is missing:
> 
... 
> 
> Any idea about this?

Yeah - diff the outputs and see what's changed.
-- 
derek