USB port disappers from serial port list [ Arduino Uno]

Hello,

I just got my Arduino Uno two days ago and I wanted to be familiar with it. I ran the blink sketch and it worked fine. Then I burnt the Digital serial read program and it didn’t work as expected. So I tried to burn another program. But, the problem is that I am not able to do that now. The Tx LED is always ON. When I plug the board my USB port is shown in the list ( /dev/ttyACM0), but when I start uploading the sketch a message is shown ```
Serial port /dev/ttyACM0 not found


Does any body have an idea what is going on?

Although I removed my bluetooth dongle(suggested on Arduino site) and a package called “BRLTTY”(suggested on ladyada.net) to get it working again and that also after many tries. After I uploaded blink sketch everything is working fine. I suspect the problem was with the Serial communication because now I am using bluetooth again and still am able to upload sketches.

This person also had the same problem:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB … 95128341/3

This is a bug in the Arduino firmware. I found a forum thread which gives a link to a patch for this problem. People who run into the same problem as mine can have a look at post #34

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB … 6088093/30

I have tried and it really works wonderfully

I just bought my first real Uno, MicroCenter Sparkfun product, and have the same problem. Unplug USB and replug USB, the port will reappear though one number higher. Any upload attempt fails with “processing.app.SerialException: Error opening serial port ‘/dev/ttyACM3’”. I notice that uploads succeed normally though if run as root. ttyACMx has the same permissions as ttyUSBx on an Adafruit FTDI Friend

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166,  3 2012-05-24 19:36 /dev/ttyACM3
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188,  0 2012-05-24 19:46 /dev/ttyUSB0

My user is a member of dialout and uploading to a Diavolino or to a Nano works fine. So there must be a permission error somewhere else.

Does anyone have an idea what piece in this USB puzzle is plugged in wrong?

My troubles are solved. Came upon this post http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,95280.0.html which describes an identical issue. I deleted my .arduino directory and IDE is working again.