Following today's updates, the K3b fault is now intermittent on my system. I thought it would be helpful to attach a copy of my dmesg after a) a boot following which K3b recognised my CD burner, and b) a boot following which it did not.
** Attachment added: "dmesg for boot following which K3b recognised CD burner" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7094368/dmesg_OK -- Feisty Beta does not recognise CD burner https://launchpad.net/bugs/96826 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs