Surprisingly, the fix from a few days ago also fixed the random freezing at
boot time that I experienced from the time I installed Karmic. I have no SSD
but an ATA disk. However, the CDROM drive continues to be probed randomly
giving an HSM violation. See the following kernel log:
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Unfortunately, this morning, the random boot lock up reappeared. and
this can only be recovered by hitting the power button which erases any
log ! So my previous comment was too optimistic. May be this is not the
proper place for discussion about the random boot lock up. But the
random CDROM probin
