Unable to install Ubuntu 9.10; livecd freezes completely

[mati]

Steps:
1. Boot the system from livecd.
2. Open some files and programs (I used gparted to move make a place for the system).
3. Watch the system freezes completely after some time (~half an hour). Keyboard and mouse don't work, even the Ctrl-Alt-Del and Alt-SysRq magic.

The issue is related to the cd/dvd drive (LG GSA-4167B), happens always when/immediately after the disc was spinning. The drive is perfectly healthy, works ok under two versions of Windows and worked ok under previous versions of Ubuntu (up to 8.04 IIRC). However, the freezes happens always under updated 9.10 too.

I though it was a bug introduced by some update and attached myself to #74372, but I've checked if I can reproduce from a clean install (or *livecd*, in this case). I can, so for the case of clarity (#74372 has some noise) I report it here.

Also important: it's probably not hal related as the freeze happens when the hal isn't even started. Nothing appears in the udev log too. I suspect Ubuntu kernel, as it stops before any message appears in any logs.

[mati (mati-wroc)]

This doesn't affect ubiquity, as it wasn't even launched.

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.
Do You still have this bug?
Thanks in advance.

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