Comment 132 for bug 75295

I tried the steps mentioned in the above post on my current Ubuntu Hardy installation. However, the upgrade in firmware gave me a respite for only 2-3 weeks and my system started locking up again, just as it used to before. I could never get uptimes beyond 2 days due to this, and I always had to stay at the system, just in case I had to reboot it. (My system is a laptop). However, I noticed that whenever the system was about to lock up, the hal-daemon process used up a high amount of process in polling my CD Drive, /dev/sdb. So, I have disabled hal polling on the drive by using 'hal-disable-polling --device /dev/sdb'. Ever since then, I have not had any problems about a system lock up.

However, as the polling has been disabled, it has also disabled the auto-mount on my CD Drive, as hal-addon-storage is not working for /dev/sdb. A work around that I use is to enable hal polling temporarily when I use the drive, and disable it once I am done with the drive.

Can someone confirm if this is correct? If it is not, kindly tell me what should I do. I'd be glad to help in fixing this problem.