lost usb/dvd on gutsy->hardy upgrade

[Pablo L. Berdaguer]

I guess it'd be usefull if you could paste the output of "lsusb" to see if the 
flash drive hardware itself gets detected.
Also, "lsmod | grep usb". For the cdrom, my guess is "lsscsi" and "lsmod | grep 
cdrom"
That won't solve anything, but it should provide some more info about what's 
wrong.


El Friday 27 June 2008 13:38:29 Greg Gamble escribió:
> Dear Kubuntu-ers
>
> I thought I'd done all the right things:
>
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get dist-upgrade
>   ... then modified /etc/apt/sources.list with vim: :%s/gutsy/hardy/g
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get dist-upgrade -y
>
> The -y was so I could leave it going overnight. Anyway, everything looked
> alright, but then I discovered that my machine was not detecting my usb
> (for flash drive) or dvd drive. Everything else is working fine ... I
> can even internet-connect (fortunately ... so I can write this email).
>
> I've already tried doing
>
>   apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> again, to see if anything was missed.
>
> My machine is an AMD 64 Inspiron 531S, if that's of any help.
>
> Everything was working fine with gutsy, except I had a few issues with
> Firefox...
> and since my work machine was already upgraded to hardy and didn't have
> those issues, I thought I'd upgrade. Seems like a bad idea now.
>
> I scanned the archives and in April some problems were reported with
> an Athlon 64 where Jesus Arocho succeeded by going back to an x.14
> kernel. We seem to be up to x.19 now ... but going back to x.14 doesn't
> work for me.
>
> Has anyone struck this problem? ... or better yet know a check list I
> should be checking? ... or even better, know a fix?
>
> Should I go back to gutsy? Is the above reversible?
> (I'm told that I only needed to do a dist-upgrade on gutsy to remove
> the probelms with Firefox.)
>
>   Regards and thanks in advance,
>   Greg Gamble