Comment 21 for bug 117441

Carl,
even though you are hopefully well on the way to a fix, i though i'd give my $0.02. this just started happening to me recently. i have seen it both with a data cd and video dvd. i'm pretty sure that when it happened the drive had either been unused during the current session, or idle for a while. i also think that it's hal related from the little troubleshooting i did. i wanted to try and stop hal and dbus when the problem started to see if that helped, but this condition produces a very fast downward spiral into an unresponsive state. and since, as others have reported, this happens sporadically i didn't see any point in stopping those services right at login because if it didn't happen, who's to say it would have anyway?

also, even though i have had it happen while using the machine, it seems like more than a few times this was either triggered by or happened in close proximity to me opening the lid and putting in my password to cancel the screensaver after having left the machine idle for a while.